Bertie is back! The murder mystery playwright turned detective returns in this latest entry from CWA Shortlisted author Jamie West.

Bertie Carroll swaps the West End for Ealing studios, when one of his plays is considered for a movie adaptation. Things take a deadly turn when one of the lead actors is found poisoned in his dressing room with no signs or clues as to how it was done.

When the continuity girl turns up dead and her notebook vanishes, Bertie is certain she must have noticed something they’ve all missed. Bertie and Hugh join together once again and find that dark secrets and motives fill the corridors surrounding the sound stages.

On a film set, under the brightest lights, can anyone really get away with murder?

Praise for Murder at the Matinee

“A book cosy crime fans and theatre buffs will enjoy from Act One all the way through to the final curtain!” – Fiona Leitch

“So happy to be taken back once again to that poignant lost land of nineteen-thirties theatre. And at the heart of is this perfect, impossible murder!” – J.M. Hall

“Elegantly crafted and expertly plotted” – Orlando Murrin

“Another wonderfully clever and satisfying Golden Age-inspired mystery” – Tom Mead

“A stylish, charming murder mystery” – Kitty Murphy

Praise for Death on the Pier

“A proper page-turner” — Ian Moore (Death and Croissants)

“A denouement worthy of Agatha Christie” — Jim Eldridge (Author of the Museum Mysteries series)

“A love letter to a bygone era.” — J.M. Hall (A Spoonful of Murder)

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