Catherine Raynes: Mother-Daughter Murder Night and The Secret Hours

Mother-Daughter Murder Night – Nina Simon 

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. 

The whodunit sees an older, high-powered businesswoman convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter and granddaughter. When the granddaughter discovers a body while kayaking and becomes a suspect, the trio, all fiercely independent, must come together to solve the crime, uncovering all sorts of secrets in the town along the way.   

The Secret Hours – Mick Herron 

Monochrome is a busted flush - an inquiry into the misdeeds of the intelligence services, established by a vindictive prime minister but rendered toothless by a wily chief spook. For years it has ground away uselessly, interviewing witnesses with nothing to offer, producing a report with nothing to say, while the civil servants at its helm see their careers disappearing into a black hole. 

And then the OTIS file falls into their hands... 

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