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Social comedy

Social comedy

Take a trip to days gone by and enjoy the scrapes and high-jinks of our twentieth-century heroes and heroines. 

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Chris McCrudden

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Highway 61 Resurfaced

Bill Fitzhugh

'Hilarious – and dead on. Fitzhugh treats us to a tragicomic tour of regional black-and blues history.' New York Times

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Humorous Mystery and Crime DJ Rick Shannon 1

Radio Activity

Bill Fitzhugh

'Fast, funny, and fabulous. This is Fitzhugh's finest – and that's saying a lot!' Jill Conner Browne

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Humorous Mystery and Crime

Fender Benders

Bill Fitzhugh

'A strange and deadly amalgam of screenwriter and comic novelist... in league with Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.' New York Times Book Review

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Humorous Mystery and Crime

Cross Dressing

Bill Fitzhugh

'Fitzhugh tightens his grip on a reputation for absurdist black comedy.' Bookpage

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Social comedy The Company of Fools 1

Love and Miss Harris

Peter Maughan

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Humorous Mystery and Crime A Mathematical Mystery 4

Bad Day in Minsk

Jonathan Pinnock

A witty, fast-paced thriller set in Belarus, with a dash of mathematics and a large dose of danger.

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Humorous Mystery and Crime The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency 9

A Pocket Full of Pie

Mandy Morton

Hettie and Tilly are called in to investigate the murder of a radio DJ, in another claw-biting case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency

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Social comedy A Serge Storms Adventure 23

Tropic of Stupid

Tim Dorsey

If you like your humour dark and twisty, then you’ll love Tim Dorsey’s outrageous Serge Storms series of crime novels.

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Social comedy The Stockwell Park Orchestra Series 3

Continental Riff

Isabel Rogers

An orchestral tour of Europe doesn’t go quite as planned!

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Humorous Mystery and Crime A Cherry PI Mystery 2

Cherry Twist

Jennifer Stone

It’s murder on the dance floor!

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Romantic Comedy Seasons by the Sea 2

A Seagull Summer

Jane Lovering

Can Leah and Brendon see beyond the mistakes of their pasts? The Seasons by the Sea series combines laugh-out-loud humour with damaged people redeemed by love. 

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