“A brilliant mix of confident secret agent, determined older lady, and outrageous friend.”
“Everyone’s Nan, but with the sass of a bad-ass.”

Bruised and battered after her last case, Maggie is a shadow of her feisty former self. But when a double-dealing double agent threatens to disclose nuclear codes, she is inclined to answer her country’s call to help. The opportunity to heal past hurts seals the deal.

Meanwhile, other shady individuals are at large; shady individuals who want to make sure she goes out with a whimper and a bang. Does she still have the cunning, courage and clout to crack the case? Will her last orders be a curtain call? Or is it finally curtains for Maggie?

Last Orders is the third and final cosy mystery book in the Maggie Matheson Collection. Essential feel-good reading for fans of Richard Osman’s Murder Club.

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‘If you read only one thriller this year; make it this one’ Daily Mail
‘Gob-smackingly, heart-stoppingly, breath-holdingly brilliant’ Ruth Jones

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THREE HOURS TO SAVE THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE

In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege.

Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news.

In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love.

A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR
A BEST BOOK OF 2020 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES, GUARDIAN, MAIL, MIRROR, LITERARY REVIEW, STYLIST, RED AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
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‘Brilliant’ Lee Child, Better off Dead

‘A brave, timely and intricately crafted work’ Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

‘Superb’ Kate Mosse, The City of Tears

‘It’s beautifully, elegantly written, SO gripping, intelligent, timely, affecting and moving’ Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel

‘A brilliant literary thriller… moving, masterly’ Sunday Times

‘Kept us on the edge of our seats from start to finish’ Independent

‘A novel that you live rather than merely read’ Daily Telegraph

‘Amazing’ Davina McCall, Menopausing

‘An electrifying, pulse-racing novel’ Red

‘Wow! This is a stunner of a book, staggeringly good’ Jane Fallon, Just Got Real

‘An emotionally devastating and beautifully observed literary thriller’ Observer

‘Astonishing, powerful, terrifying, heartbreaking’ Emma Flint, Little Deaths

‘Intersperses scenes of breath-sucking tension with stirring meditations on human nature’ Guardian

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Prepare to be hooked . . .

* #1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *
* A NEW YORK TIMES BSETSELLER *
* OVER 2,000 5 STAR REVIEWS *

‘I was ENTHRALLED’ Gillian McAllister
‘A GRIPPING read’ Shari Lapena
‘A sheer PLEASURE to read’ Harriet Tyce
‘Artful, slippery, HUGELY SATISFYING’ Louise Candlish
‘The story EVERYONE has been waiting for’ Adele Parks
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LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.

DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago.

Also inside the bag is a trail of clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.

The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.

Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can’t stay buried for ever . . .
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‘GRIPS from first page to last’ Paula Hawkins
‘Compulsive, gripping and immersive’ CL Taylor
‘Twisty and strange and surprising’ Emily Henry
‘Perfection on a page’ Alice Feeney
‘Guaranteed to send your blood pressure soaring’ Red Magazine
‘It’s a triumph. Brava!’ Erin Kelly
‘Lisa Jewell is, simply, outstanding’ Alex Marwood
‘Compelling, ingenious, breath-stopping’ Tamar Cohen
‘A witty and propulsive stunner of a novel’ Katherine Heiny
‘This is Lisa Jewell at her absolute best.’ Paul Burston
‘A compulsive, dark, satisfying tale’ Catherine Steadman
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Readers can’t get enough of The Family Remains . . .

***** ‘There’s nothing about this book that I would change. Seriously.’
***** ‘My expectations were high and this still managed to surpass them.’
***** ‘The writing is outstanding from start to finish and it’s an engrossing read.’
***** ‘I could not put it down and loved the surprises and twists.’
***** ‘Lisa Jewell can write one hell of a thriller!!’

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