Murder is Cheaper Than Therapy

Kate Emery

North American rights sold at auction to SMP/Minotaur!

Hetty isn’t particularly sad when her estranged father dies and she inherits his house. Actually, it’s the first nice thing he’s done for her since walking out thirty years ago.

Unfortunately, he’s also left her some unresolved trauma, his detective agency and some disgruntled clients. And he is surely at least partly responsible for the dead body in her backyard.

Hetty may be a mild-mannered software engineer with no desire to embrace her father’s Temu Philip Marlowe dream but, if she doesn’t want to join him six feet under, she might have to give it a crack anyway. Aided by her best friend Alex, the suspiciously handsome Harry and an obese cat whose contribution to the investigation starts and ends with getting catnapped, Hetty will have to get to the bottom of the bodies that have started to pile up before she becomes one of them.

Release: Apr-2027

ISBN: 9781761473852

RRP (AUD): $34.99

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Category: Mystery

Kate Emery

Kate Emery is an award-winning author from Perth, Western Australia. Her books include cosy YA murder mysteries A Murder Is Going Down (Allen & Unwin, 2025), My Family and Other Suspects (Allen & Unwin, 2024) and YA fantasy The Not So Chosen One (Text Publishing, 2022). This is her first book for adults.

Allen & Unwin

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