A Life Force in Life Science tells the extraordinary story of Ida Smedley MacLean.

Prolific crime writer Penny Freedman returns with her fifth novel in the Gina Gray series: Drown My Books. The narrative follows the story of Gina Gray, a woman who is disappointed by work, love and life.

In this explosive follow-up to This is a Dreadful Sentence, featuring Gina Gray and DCI Scott, a twelve-year-old girl is killed, pushed down the stairs at her home and beaten over the head with a golf club.

Struggling, as ever, with the demands of work, family and a precarious love life, Gina Gray finds herself in the world of Scandinavian noir.

Moving between London and Kent, the book disentangles two mysteries as, for the first time, Freda is given a voice of her own.

The latest in the Gina Gray crime series featuring a sharp-tongued, pushy grandmother amateur detective. In this adventure she is joined by her 16-year-old granddaughter, Freda to solve the crime of dead academic

March 2020. Gina Gray returns to the Lake District to share COVID isolation with her oldest friend, Eve. They are joined by Gina’s teenage granddaughter, Freda, who is finding her own home too crowded for comfort.

You owe it to us, Gina.” This is the message that takes Gina Gray to the Lake District to unravel a mystery in circumstances which undermine even her boundless self-confidence.

Marianne Gray is getting married in Glamis Castle and her mother is in a state of superstitious terror.

Told in alternate chapters from the point of view of Gina and of DCI Scott, the novel weaves and unravels a complex mystery, while exploring the edgy, combative relationship that develops between the two of them.