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From cops to bookshops, and cosy crime

From Saturday Morning, 9:43 am today

Photo: Penguin NZ

Photo: Penguin NZ

Cosy crime became massively popular thanks to Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, and Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies. New Zealand adds to the genre with Gareth and Louise Ward's The Bookshop Detectives.

Gareth and Louise are ex-cops turned book shop owners, uniquely positioning them to write about bookselling and crime-fighting.

They tell Susie about The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death.