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Murder Like Clockwork

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By Nicola Whyte

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On Sale
May 5, 2026
Page Count
352 pages
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13
9781454958437

Price

$18.99

Price

$24.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $18.99 $24.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD

Every Thursday at midday Audrey Brooks cleans the Petrov house. Mr. Petrov is never home—in fact he seems to use the house purely as storage for his impressive collection of antiques—but that doesn’t affect the care with which Audrey mops, polishes, and carefully winds each of the dozens of beautiful clocks that decorate the tall, elegant, empty London mansion.
     Until the morning she finds a corpse in the back bedroom, the pristine walls and floor covered in blood, and flees the house in panic.
Fifteen minutes later, the police arrive . . . and find nothing. No body. No blood. The only thing slightly out of the ordinary is the clock in that back bedroom, which is now running four minutes slow.
     With no victim, the police are convinced there was no murder, but Audrey knows better. A man has been killed, and if they won’t do anything about it, she—and her annoying friend Lewis—will. Whodunnit is one thing, but this detective duo must also wrestle with when—and where on earth is the body? It’s not long since they solved the murder of their neighbor, so they’re not rookie sleuths, and at least this time the case has no connection to their home. Does it?

Nicola Whyte

About the Author

Nicola Whyte studied Drama at Aberystwyth University and spent many happy years as a bookseller before becoming a web developer. She now co-owns a digital agency in the southwest of England. Her work has been listed for the Comedy Women in Print Prize, the BPA First Novel Award, and the Cheshire Novel Prize. 10 Marchfield Square was named as runner-up in the 2023 Daily Mail First Novel Award. She lives near Stonehenge in Wiltshire with her family.

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