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An Izzy Palmer Mystery
Series · 8 books · 2019-2022

Books in series

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#1

A Corpse Called Bob

2019

Izzy’s childhood dream is about to come true. Oh, and someone’s going to murder her boss. Nobody at work liked Bob Thomas, but who hated him enough to finally do him in? When Izzy Palmer finds her much loathed boss stabbed to death in his office, she’s convinced she’s the only one who can solve the case. Izzy is a crime fiction devotee, a life-long fan of whodunits and she’s determined to find the killer. Okay, the police have zero interest in her help, her best friend is acting super suspicious and she might sort of, possibly be falling for one of the suspects, but she won’t let any of that get in her way. She's almost certainly the detective that South London has been crying out for. Will a detailed knowledge of every golden-age mystery plot be enough to work out who killed Bob or could Izzy end up as the next victim? A Corpse Called Bob combines all the intrigue of a classic Agatha Christie novel with the wit and warmth of Sophie Kinsella. Early readers have described the book as, “a hilarious mix of classic detective story and modern murder mystery which keeps you gripped to the very end.”
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#2

A Corpse in the Country

2020

One murdered millionaire, seven suspects and only forty-eight hours to work out whodunit. Izzy Palmer has always wanted to investigate a country house mystery, she just never dreamed of getting paid £100,000 for the trouble. Financial tycoon Aldridge Porter was a hard-headed businessman and now he's stiff-muscled corpse hanging in his library. Each of his children had a reason to want their miserly father out of the way, but was it the golden child, the underachiever, the playboy, the vamp or the waif who stuck the knife in? Unless, of course, the butler did it. Izzy will need to call on everything that her obsession with detective fiction has taught her to uncover the secrets of Vomeris Hall and the eccentric family who lives there. “A Corpse in the Country” is the second book in the Izzy Palmer series. It’s another fast-paced and funny murder mystery that delivers a contemporary spin on golden-age crime fiction. If you like the intrigue of Agatha Christie mixed with the humour of Helen Fielding, then this is the series for you.
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#3

A Corpse on the Beach

2020

A free holiday on the Atlantic coast is too good an opportunity for Izzy to turn down. But soon after she and Ramesh arrive at the opulent Cova Negra Hotel, it’s clear there’s something unusual about the other guests. When the body of a beautiful young woman turns up on the private beach, Izzy discovers that there's darkness lurking behind the luxury. A shady organisation with a violent past, a string of robberies and an unexpected celebrity guest make getting to the truth even more difficult. As she (and occasionally Ramesh’s cats) begin to investigate, she finds that no one is quite who they seem. With bodies piling up and the police baffled, Izzy must face her most savage adversary yet. But how can she catch the killer when each suspect is more duplicitous than the last?
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#4

A Corpse in London

2020

When British film star Samuel Akerele falls over dead in front of a crowd of tourists in Piccadilly Circus, his famous family suspect foul play and hire Izzy Palmer to search out his murderer. Despite the fact everyone loved Sammy on the silver screen, he had plenty of enemies off it. Between his overbearing parents, jealous siblings, scheming managers and obsessive fans, everyone wanted a piece of him, but who took their final cut? Izzy will have to set aside her own relationship troubles, her mother’s dreams of stardom and everyone in the world being distracted by a royal wedding to solve the case, but with a city full of suspects to choose from, does she really have what it takes to find the killer? "A Corpse in London" is a witty and twisting new entry in the Izzy Palmer Mystery series. All her usual gang of helpers are along for the ride, as well as some familiar faces from the past. If you love whodunits set in London, royal weddings, convincing Freddy Mercury impersonators, fake celebrities, real celebrities, or chocolate mousse, this is almost certainly the book for you. Other Books in the Izzy Palmer Mystery series. Novels 1) - A Corpse Called Bob 2) - A Corpse in the Country 3) - A Corpse on the Beach Novellas A Corpse in a Caravan A Corpse in the Freezer (Available free to members of The Izzy Palmer Readers' Club ) A Corpse at a Birthday Party (Available free to members of The Izzy Palmer Readers' Club )
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#5

A Corpse for Christmas

2020

Snowy mountains, a picture-perfect Christmas village and… Wait! Who’s that dead among the pine trees? Hired to protect a mysterious client on a festive family holiday in the Scottish Highlands, private detective Izzy Palmer poses as a nanny to investigate a string of threatening letters. To solve the case she’ll have to deal with a pack of feuding aristocrats and uncover the truth about a decades’ old rivalry, all while caring for a distractingly adorable baby girl. It's enough to make even the most dogged detective despair. When the exclusive winter resort is snowed in, tempers flare and a fake Father Christmas turns up dead in the snow. With a lord, an admiral, a professor and a celebrated artist among the suspects, Izzy will need the help of her eccentric sidekick (turned undercover chef) and a makeshift princess to find the killer and stop her white Christmas turning red... A Corpse for Christmas is a classic, Agatha-Christie-style murder mystery with humour, intrigue and a little bit of ‘Home Alone’ thrown in for good measure. As a standalone novel in the Izzy Palmer Mystery series, you don’t need to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this delicious but hilariously deadly Christmas tale. If you love whodunits featuring outrageous characters, Machiavellian suspects, baked goods, warring relatives and genuine, Christmassy warmth, then this is the book for you.
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#6

A Corpse in a Locked Room

2021

Izzy is heading to a family reunion. Oops, someone’s going to die. When private detective Izzy Palmer is summoned to a lavish party in a grand stately home, she must deal with a host of painful memories from her past. But have her bratty cousins and their vain mother really changed as they claim, or is it just another trick? After a member of the party is murdered in a room locked from the outside, Izzy has to question all she thought she knew about her family to get to the truth. With so many duplicitous relatives around and her mother a suspect, it's impossible to know who she can trust. Dark secrets will be unearthed and old scores laid to rest before the truth of “A Corpse in a Locked Room” can be unpicked.
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#7

A Corpse in a Quaint English Village

2021

When Izzy Palmer organises a relaxing weekend away with the man she is at least seventy-five per cent certain she's in love with, all she wants is rest, relaxation and perhaps a little romance. But after a battered body turns up in the middle of the Shackleford Rise summer fete, it's clear that there are dark secrets hiding behind the village's ever-twitching curtains. To complicate things further, a pack of hungry journalists are on Izzy's tail, her all-singing mother has crashed the investigation, her boyfriend keeps being far too polite to everyone, and, oh yes, the bodies are piling up by the hour. How is London's most private detective supposed to solve a string of murders when there are so many other distractions to get in the way? Between a thuggish policeman, a nervous vicar, the world's most evil cat lady, a nosy neighbour and a very sober drunk, someone must be to blame for the killings, and Izzy is certain she can worm out the culprit. Well... seventy-five per cent certain, at the very least.
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#8

A Corpse at a Wedding

A Funny, Twisty Mystery

2022

Izzy Palmer is going to a wedding! What could possibly go wrong? Private detective Izzy Palmer’s long-serving sidekick is about to have the country-house wedding of his dreams, and only a crazed bridesmaid, three drunken schoolfriends and a guest list of two hundred can spoil it. But when an old friend turns up dead in the bridal suite, and six different suspects confess to the killing, Izzy will have her work cut out to discover who- didn't -dunit. With a host of eccentric relatives, celebrity guests, pop-star cats, true-crime-loving priests, and various obsessive exes to deal with, Izzy must solve the murder in time for the happy couple to walk down the aisle. But then again, the bride herself has been acting strangely, and as for her mother… well, just about anyone could be the culprit. A quirky modern whodunit filled with comedy and intrigue, “A Corpse at a Wedding” provides a heady dose of matrimonial murder madness wrapped up in a heart-shaped bow.

Author

Benedict Brown
Benedict Brown
Author · 30 books

Writing has always been my passion. It was my favourite hour a week at primary school, and I started on my first, truly abysmal book as a teenager. So it wasn’t a difficult decision to study literature at university which led to an MA in Creative Writing. I spent a long time writing kids’ books, including funny fairy tales, dystopic adventures and serious issue-based YA, before switching to murder mysteries last year. I grew up in a crime fiction family and spent a long time dreaming up the idea for my detective Izzy Palmer’s debut novel. A Corpse Called Bob is my first full-length book for adults in what is already becoming a long series. I’m a Welsh-Irish-Englishman originally from South London but now living with my French/Spanish wife and slightly muddled daughter in Burgos, a beautiful city in the north of Spain. I write overlooking the Castilian countryside, trying not to be distracted by the vultures and red kites that fly past my window each day.

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