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y separately published work icon Drop Dead in Red Tasmania : Tansy Rayner Roberts , 2022 25756258 2022 single work novel crime

'Glamorous cult movie director Prue Scythe went missing at a film festival in Sydney, and was never found... until her dead body turned up on a miniature goat farm in rural Tasmania, fifteen years later.

'Where has she been all this time? Why was she wearing a drop dead gorgeous red evening gown when she died? Who stole her scarf?

'Once again, the Fashionably Late boutique is entangled with a local murder. It's up to Sam Sullivan and her friends to investigate, to ensure the wrong person isn't blamed for this crime of fashion.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Dyed and Buried Australia : Tansy Rayner Roberts , 2021 24859366 2021 single work novel crime

'Meet Samantha Sullivan, a former wedding planner trying to put her life back together with a new job at the friendly beachfront boutique Fashionably Late.

'After Sam is sent to collect fifteen wedding dresses from a dead man's estate, the strangest week of her life begins to unfold. Who is the anonymous designer Chameleon? Was Ethan Brady's death a genuine accident, or a sinister hit-and-run? Where is pop star Colette Cray's dress, and why is her hot bodyguard so desperate to find it? Whose shirt is splattered with suspicious green dye?

'If Sam and her friends don't solve this crime of fashion, someone will get away with murder...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Keep Calm and Kill the Chef Yokine : Deadlines , 2019 16937248 2019 single work novel crime

'Scones, tea, and a stabbing…

'When Tabitha Darling entered Cafe La Femme in a reality TV show hosted by an infamous “bad boy” Chef, she never expected to be a suspect in his murder.

'When Xanthippe Carides quit working in a cafe to become a private detective, she never expected one of her first cases would be keeping Tabitha out of jail…

'These two friends have a mystery to solve, and only one of them is telling the whole truth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
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