Launch
Friends,
A first dispatch from the trolley. Two things, neither of them long.
Book Two has a release date.
The Holiday Let Murder, the second Cresthollow Bay mystery, is out on 1 August 2026. It is available for preorder on Amazon now, in every store, wherever you happen to buy your books. Preorder it and it lands on your reader on release morning without you having to do anything else about it. (This is the part I prefer about ebooks.)
A brief description, for those who would rather not click through:
Every smart device in the cottage went dark on Sunday evening. The cottage kept taking notes.
Margot Finch returns in the second Cresthollow Bay Mystery — a holiday-let murder, a town being quietly automated out of itself, and a kitchen that remembers every step the killer took.
For readers of Richard Osman, Janice Hallett, and Anthony Horowitz.
Preorder The Holiday Let Murder
Also in your local Amazon store: UK · Canada · Australia
Advance readers — applications are open.
I am also putting together a small group of advance readers to receive the manuscript in July, read it ahead of publication, and post an honest review around release week. If that sounds like your kind of thing, the application is on the site. The group is genuinely small, I read every application, and a few specific lines about why you read in this corner of the genre is plenty.
Two stars from someone who actually engaged with the book is more useful to me than five stars from someone who skimmed it. I mean that.
That is all for this dispatch. Thank you for being on the list at the very beginning. It matters more than you might expect.
— V.