Gone Guest

When a guest goes missing at an isolated Gothic mansion, bang in the middle of a glamorous birthday party, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB abandon their champagne flutes and start searching.

What begins as a fun game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into a horror story as first one body, then another shows up, but NOT the missing man. He's the beloved nephew of book club member Ronnie Westera, and she's adamant he's a victim, but the police think otherwise.

As their attention turns to the missing man's twin brother, the book club look elsewhere for answers, like Ronnie's disgruntled in-laws, her gossipy BFF, a secretive CEO and - gasp! - Ronnie herself (because even their resident socialite is hiding something behind her chiffon and pearls).

In their latest closed-circle thriller at a Knives Out-style manor, our crime fiction aficionados can't help seeing similarities between this whodunnit and two modern murder mysteries they've been reading. Can you guess both books and what they have in common?

Previously titled The Agatha Christie Book Club, this series is for real mystery enthusiasts, and is the sixth, stand-alone instalment packed with fun, fireworks and a twist so startling it leaves those fireworks looking, well, blah.

Join the crime world's favourite book club and test out your own "little grey cells".

NB: This book follows BRITISH English spelling and usage, and contains some Australian slang. Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language. Genre: cozy mystery, humour, amateur sleuths

Author: C. a. Larmer
Publisher: Larmer Media
Published: 10/13/2023
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780645944914

About the Author
Larmer, C. a.: - Christina (C.A.) Larmer tried writing a romance at the age of 13 but pretty soon she'd bumped off the hero and planted it on the heroine. It was the beginning of a beautiful love affair that has resulted in more than 20 books published across the globe, from Australia to the US, the UK and Canada. Now a hybrid author with publishers in Japan and France, Christina has four crime series (the Murder Mystery Book Club, the Ghostwriter Mysteries, the Sleuths of Last Resort and the Posthumous Mysteries), as well as a thriller-suspense novel and a stand-alone mystery masquerading as a family saga (she's fooling nobody). She has also written a non-fiction book about Papua New Guinea, where she was born.