East Yorkshire crime writer, Penny Grubb, whose debut novel, Like False Money, sold out in 10 days is now celebrating the release of her second novel, The Doll Makers, which won the prestigious international award – the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger.
The Doll Makers is to be launched at WHSmith Books, 6-8 Toll Gavel, Beverley, on Saturday 18 September. Penny will be in WHSmith to sign books from 11am to 12pm. Everyone who comes to the signing is invited to join her afterwards in the King’s Head Hotel, Saturday Market, where she will be with other local authors, including Valerie Wood.
About the book
Readers familiar with Annie, the heroine from Like False Money, know her as a private investigator working in Hull. Some years have passed, and The Doll Makers finds Annie working as an insurance fraud investigator in London. She returns to her native Argyll with bad news for her father and not a clue how to break it to him. Everywhere she turns, someone else’s agenda gets in the way. It isn’t until events tie one of her cases to a far off police enquiry that she realises the significance of the evidence she holds, but somewhere close is a killer determined she’ll never deliver it.
What the critics said about Like False Money:
“A gripping read” Seaside Radio.
“The locations are spot on” Kingstown Radio.
“This novel surprises, entertains, scares and satisfies in equal measure and I heartily recommend it.”
Speak Without Interruption website.
“Penny supplies the reader with facts, theories and puzzles, slowly revealing the plot with clues for those clever enough to spot them. But the solutions to the interwoven mysteries are unexpected and, in the case of the murder, breathtaking and ultimately inevitable. The novel starts with gentle intrigues, in-fighting and political games played by those with hidden motives, but develops into a cliff-hanger, almost literally.”
Author and reviewer, Stuart Aken
About Penny Grubb:
Penny is a crime writer, an academic and current Chair of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society which is the largest writers’ organisation in the world. She teaches courses on non-fiction and creative writing. The third novel in the Annie series, The Jawbone Gang, is due out next year.
