The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone

Eloise and Garth with their dog, Stevie, run the bookshop, Sherlock Tomes. They have a loyal clientele who regularly visit the store and keep them entertained. Then they are told that famous author, Isabella Garrante, wants her latest novel to be launched at their bookshop. There is so much to do to get the shop ready for the big event but then a strange envelope arrives at the shop with the message that they should investigate the disappearance of seventeen year old Tracey Jervis twenty years earlier.

Eloise and Garth were members of the police force in England before moving to New Zealand to start a new life. Their initial fear when they received the envelope was that it was connected to a criminal in England who they had helped put in prison. Before long they discover that they need to be worried about dangerous people closer to their new home including members of the Black Dogs motor cycle gang. As their investigation continues, with the assistance of a local police officer, they have a suspect for Tracey's disappearance but how are they to prove it?

The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward is an entertaining romp as Eloise and Garth encounter danger as they investigate this cold case.