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Kate Hardy is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Georgina Drake cozy crime series for Storm. Her novel 'Breakfast at Giovanni's' won the RNA Romance Prize in 2008, 'Bound by a Baby' won the RNA RoNA Rose in 2014 and ‘A Will, A Wish, A Wedding’ won the RNA Liberta Books Shorter Fiction award in 2021. She's been shortlisted six more times for the award, as well as for two Romantic Times awards.

She lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two grown-up children, springer spaniels Archie and Dexter, and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd who loves cinema, live music, the theatre, ballet, history and cooking, and adores anything Italian. She loves doing research, partic
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Kate Hardy I'm currently revising my Christmas book - let's just say it involves posh afternoon tea, men posing naked for a charity calendar, a water fight... oh…moreI'm currently revising my Christmas book - let's just say it involves posh afternoon tea, men posing naked for a charity calendar, a water fight... oh, and you'll need tissues because it's one of my weepies! :)(less)
Kate Hardy For 'Bachelor at Her Bidding', I was one of a group of authors whose heroes take part in a bachelor auction. But what they offer and what happens next…moreFor 'Bachelor at Her Bidding', I was one of a group of authors whose heroes take part in a bachelor auction. But what they offer and what happens next was totally up to us! I'd been toying with the idea of 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach' and how you'd win a girl's heart through food - and that morphed into (my working title) 'how to win a girl in ten cakes'. (I thoroughly enjoyed doing the research!)(less)
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Twelfth in the series, but Ellis catches you up with the characters so you could read it as a standalone.

DCI Oldroyd is at a conference in York; but when he goes on a ghost walk on his time off, he discovers a body - the victim is an unpleasant landl
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Thoroughly enjoyable seasonal mystery. Although it's the ninth in the series, you can quickly work out who's who and where they fit in and it works as a standalone.

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"I can't get enough of Kate Hardy's Georgina Drake mysteries. They are well-paced with an endearing cast of characters, including a ghost. I love all the twists and turns. I listened to this one and the narrator was perfect. (Nothing ruins an audio bo" Read more of this review »
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Another instalment in the Dan Armstrong series - and it's a good addition!

Dan has been invited to take part in a murder mystery dinner by film star Alice Graceland; he thinks it's a chance to get his novel in front of Hollywood movers and shakers, bu
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The sixth in the series - and although you could read this as a standalone, I'd recommend reading the rest of the series first because it is SO GOOD. (It's one of my all-time favourite series - one I wish I'd written myself!)

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Thoroughly enjoyed the latest instalment. Although you can read this as a standalone as Miranda does catch you up, I'd recommend reading the rest of the series first because you'll get more out of their backstories and character development.

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Another of Jane's fabulous romcoms with quirky characters.

After breaking up with her awful boyfriend, Phoebe sees an ad for the 'Monday Night Heartbreak Club' - a group meeting in a local wine bar after an unhappy Valentine's Day. She ends up forming
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The fifth book in the Deadly Damsels series - although you could read it as a standalone, I think you'd get more out of it if you read the others first, because this brings everything together.

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