Very pleased to relate the new Walter Darriteau book for 2024, the fifteenth in the series is now finished and ready. It will be released at the end of October, and pre-orders can be bought HERE.

It’s called “Crying Roses” and is a chunky book too, but not in two parts. Well over 400 pages.

Here’s a brief description:

Imagine waking every morning, a stranger inside your head, telling you to kill people before bedtime.

Last thing at night, the bowling club president, Barnabus Reynolds, is busy cashing up, preparing to go home. Everyone else has gone. He believes he is alone; but is he?

At nine the next morning, the caretaker opens up to find Barnabus splayed out on his office floor, dead and gone. There is no blood to be seen, no cuts, no sign of any injury, and no murder weapon. Could it have been a heart attack or stroke?

He checks the top drawer for yesterday’s takings and finds nothing. Could it have been a robbery? How did the widely loved Barnabus meet his end? The caretaker is baffled and upset in equal measure, as he makes a call, summoning the emergency services.

“Crying Roses” is the fifteenth book in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series, another chunky standalone novel, and one to keep any reader interested, featuring strong characters capable of jumping straight into the reader’s brain.

And here’s that link again to reserve your copy to ensure you get your ebook on the day of release. We are aiming to have the paperback out on that day too, though it might be a day or two later. ORDER HERE

Thanks for reading.