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The Doll Makers (winner of the CWA Debut Dagger) was published by Robert Hale Ltd at the end of June 2010.

The Amazon link (plus links to cheaper suppliers) are on my website www.pennygrubb.com

It was a long and convoluted road to publication. I'd long abandoned this PI series when I entered the book for the dagger award. When it won, I resurrected and rewrote it all. The result is that the books are coming out in slightly the wrong order chronologically. The Doll Makers is the 3rd in the series but the 2nd to be published. The first, Like False Money, came out in February, and the 2nd in the series, the Jawbone Gang, will be out next year.

Life looks good for insurance fraud investigator Annie Raymond or rather that’s how she spins it. As she returns to her native Argyll she has no clue how she will tell her father the real story; she only knows she must. But she hadn’t counted on his agendas getting in her way, or on the business she left behind creeping up to take centre stage. For a moment, the new case looks like a lifeline, but that’s only wishful thinking. Or is it? It wouldn’t take much to fake the evidence and deliver the miracle. Distracted by an impossible choice, Annie takes her eye off the ball as loose ends tie one of her cases to a far off police enquiry. With nowhere left to go, Annie holds vital evidence. And someone close is determined she will never deliver it.

Goodness, I am so ham-fisted at this sort of thing. The image is HUGE and rather stretched. I had in mind a neat little book cover. Sorry.