
The Widows' Guide to Last Orders
A Totally Irresistible Cozy Mystery
Amanda Ashby(Author)
Storm Publishing
Published on 14. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-1-83700-443-0 (ISBN)
Description
Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She's got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbour Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The police call it an accident; Ginny suspects murder. But with Wallace strangely impossible to locate and convince, she and the other widows must step - carefully, mind - into the breach.
The victim, it turns out, wasn't just torturing locals with impossible trivia. He was hunting for his great-aunt who vanished from Little Shaw in 1963, along with what village gossips insist was a fortune in Cold War secrets. Now Ginny and her friends must decode a sixty-year-old mystery involving priest holes, spy scandals, and the competing egos of the local history society.
But when the killer strikes again, the widows need to solve this fast before someone calls last orders on them...
A brilliantly twisty cozy mystery perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Robert Thorogood and anyone who thinks retirement should come with a side of solving murders.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83700-443-0 (9781837004430)
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Person
Amanda Ashby was born in Australia but now lives in New Zealand. She has a degree in English and Journalism, and like all good Australians, she headed to England as soon as she graduated, where she met her husband, while serving him a pint. Her debut book was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award, and her first young adult book was listed by the New York Public Libraryʼs Stuff for the Teen Age. She's since gone on to write over twenty-five books and when she's not pretending to look busy, she likes to delight her family by constantly rearranging the furniture.