Book Genre: Golden Age Mystery

Title: The Murder Awards
Series: The Amy Rowlings Mysteries
Published by: SpellBound Books Ltd
Release Date: 05-11-2023
Contributors: T. A . Belshaw
Genre: Golden Age Mystery
Pages: 406
ASIN: B0CL7KM67R

May 1939:

When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night’s ‘Businessman Of The Year Award’, Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up.

Nelson’s company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of the town’s elite, having backed a rival bidder, aren’t happy at missing out.

When the CID department at the local police station is suddenly reduced in manpower, Bodkin is told he will have to manage the murder investigation alone.

Into the breach steps young Amy Rowlings, the twenty-one-year-old with a mind every bit as sharp as her fictional hero, Hercule Poirot.

Amy, an avid crime fiction reader, movie buff and collector of American records, brings her insight and intelligence to the aid of the overstretched inspector as he attempts to find a way through the morass of lies, deception and corruption.

Once again, Amy must utilise all the investigative techniques she has learned from Agatha Christie’s famous detective to help bring a brutal killer to justice.

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Title: Murder on the Medway
Series: The Amy Rowlings Mysteries #4
Published by: SpellBound Books Ltd
Release Date: 30th April 2024
Genre: Golden Age Mystery
Pages: 415
ASIN: B0CW19S38R

July 1939

WHODUNIT?

Amateur sleuth, Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are spending a pleasant afternoon at the side of the gurgling, Silverstream, when the body of young Effie Watkins is discovered in the reed beds.

An overstretched Bodkin is desperate for some extra help at the police station and the last thing he needs is another murder to solve.

All the early clues point towards the exclusive Highwater Boat Club and against the wishes of Bodkin, Amy and her best friend Alice decide to go undercover at the club’s posh annual ball.

Amy soon finds that party girl Effie wasn’t exactly the flavour of the month, especially among the wives and girlfriends. Hercule Poirot fan Amy, builds a list of suspects which includes the club captain and some of the pillars of the local business community.

As the investigation intensifies, Bodkin is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past and Amy is left to reflect on the strength of their relationship.

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Title: Ten Years After
Series: The Amy Rowlings Mysteries
Published by: SpellBound Books Ltd
Release Date: 25th Sept 2024
Genre: Golden Age Mystery
ASIN: B0D9NYGRTH

A derelict, long abandoned cottage has lain undisturbed in the woods for almost half a century.

Known to the local children as Creepy Cottage, its reputation means that even the toughest of the local kids keep away from its boundaries. Years before, as the children’s skipping rhyme recalls, a young boy had gone in through a window and had never come out again.

Now, in late August 1939, things are about to change. Following the most violent summer storm the town has seen for decades, a falling tree causes an end wall to collapse, revealing the skeleton of a young woman.

Creepy Cottage has begun to give up its secrets.

Following a botched initial investigation by an incompetent police force in 1929, young amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin team up again to investigate, but instead of opening a cold case, they find themselves investigating one that is seemingly frozen in time.

Suspicion falls on the members of the local Playhouse amateur dramatic club and a fallen star of the theatrical world whose career has been mired in scandal.

But will the few clues remaining and the fading memories of witnesses be enough to help Amy and Bodkin to bring a brutal killer to justice?

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Title: Encore For Murder
Series: The Amy Rowlings Mysteries
Published by: SpellBound Books Ltd
Release Date: 5th June 2025
Contributors: T. A . Belshaw
Genre: Golden Age Mystery
ASIN: B0F7G7MSRF

AMY ROWLINGS RETURNS!

In Encore for Murder, the sixth instalment of the Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mystery series, amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings is pulled into one of her most puzzling cases yet—how can a man be murdered twice?

When gang member Lonnie Firth turns up dead, again, Amy joins forces with Inspector Bodkin to untangle a web of deception, rival gangs, and dangerous alliances.

From the seductive and deadly Bessie Dagger to the scheming Dora ‘Birdie’ Lark, everyone has something to hide.

As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, Amy must tread carefully—because in this case, solving the mystery might just be the most dangerous thing she’s ever done.

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