TY - BOOK AU - Cartmel,Andrew TI - Ashram assassin T2 - The paperback sleuth SN - 9781803367927 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Titan Books Ltd KW - Private investigators KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Murderers KW - Investigation KW - Secrecy KW - Books KW - Booksellers and bookselling KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels KW - Cozy mysteries N2 - Humorous cosy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram. When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga books are stolen from a West London ashram, its leaders turn to Cordelia, the paperback sleuth, to recover them - a set-up that's a little awkward as they've previously barred her from yoga classes for selling marijuana to their students. But what begins as a hunt for missing paperbacks soon becomes a murder investigation as those involved with the ashram can't seem to stop dropping down dead - murdered with a whisky bottle to the head or a poisoned curry. Can Cordelia work out who the killer is and bring them to justice before they bring an end to her sleuthing for good? ER -