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ISBN: 9781760995232
Dimensions: C Format: 23x15.2cm
Pages: 224
Publication year: 2026
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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Sound Mind Dead Body

Written by Dave Warner

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Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (née de Reve) read from her late husband’s will. One of the houseguests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who has come to the UK as a beneficiary of the will. When Aunt Julia dies before the reading, and another death follows soon after, everybody in the manor house is a possible suspect. It is up to Willets, assisted by the bright young pharmacist Prudence Meadows, to crack this whodunnit.

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‘Everything you’d expect from a Dave Warner cosy – sharp wit, beguiling characters and a deeply satisfying mystery.’ David Whish-Wilson


Pages: 224
Publication Year: 2026
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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Dave Warner photographed in Customs House bar at Circular Quay, NSW, on 20 February 2017 by Bleddyn Butcher

Dave Warner

Dave Warner is a writer and musician. He is a winner of the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction, and he has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure. Sound Mind Dead Body is his fourteenth crime fiction novel and the first to feature Fred […]

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