The Deadly Boutique
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Welcome to Whitby, home to two of the most remarkable women you'll ever meet. There's Brenda, who keeps herself to herself, quietly running her lovely, spick and span guest house - but who sometimes seems older than time itself. And then there's Effie: a bit of a law unto herself, really. They seem to be settling down nicely, but then a strange Mr Danby opens his curious beauty parlour, The Deadly Boutique, up Frances's Passage. And things there are most certainly not what they seem.
Join the intrepid ladies as they discover why Jessie Sturgeon, the surly waitress at The Christmas Hotel, suddenly looks so vivacious - and whether Mr Danby's mysterious methods are any match for Brenda...
Paul Magrs
Paul Magrs has published many novels, including the six-volume Spooky Mystery series about Brenda and Effie, and two about the adventures of that time-travelling adventuress, Iris Wildthyme. He published his first novel in 1996, the year he gained his PhD, which was written about the novelist Angela Carter. His first Doctor Who novel was The Scarlet Empress (1998). In recent years he has also written, for AudioGo, seventeen Doctor Who audio dramas starring Tom Baker as the Doctor.
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