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  • Published: 11 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804957486
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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Bad Deeds




Slick, gripping and 'madly fun and exciting' (Lisa Jewell), get ready for Andrew Hunter Murray's new crime caper.

Alex used to break into other people’s houses.

These days though, he's turned his life around. He still breaks into homes and offices – but now it's legal, to test the security for the rightful owners. He’s got a job, a regular income, a roof over his head, even a girlfriend.

For once, it's all going right.

And then he takes a job he shouldn’t, and steals a souvenir – a vial of white powder – from an executive's desk in an office he's just entered.

It’s pretty clear what the powder is. Only it proves to be something quite different, and soon Alex’s problems begin in earnest as his own flat is trashed and his life is threatened.

This little tube has opened up a whole world of trouble for Alex and his friends.

Trouble that won’t go away any time soon...

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Praise for A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering...

'Fantastic' Zoe Ball

‘A joyous read from start to finish. I loved it!’ Clare Mackintosh

'It’s laugh-out-loud funny, proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossible to put down.' Sunday Times

'A comic delight' Financial Times

  • Published: 11 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804957486
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Andrew Hunter Murray

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer and broadcaster from London. His three previous novels (The Last Day, The Sanctuary, and A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering) have between them hit the Sunday Times top 10 bestseller charts, been Waterstones' Thriller of the Month and have been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

When not writing, Andrew presents The Naked Week on BBC Radio 4, co-hosts the award-winning smash podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine, and hosts the Eye’s podcast, Page 94.


Andrew lives in London, in a house which largely belongs to someone else (Barclay’s).

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Praise for Bad Deeds

Witty, wicked and whip-smart - Bad Deeds is the perfect page turner for those who like their thillers with propulsive plots, rollicking action, and a serving of bone-dry satire. An absolute hoot!

Ross Montgomery

Bad Deeds is a smart, page-turning romp that sees the ripples from one tiny not-quite-innocent action reach tidal wave proportions for its lively anti-hero. Funny, thoughtful and intriguing, this is crime writing with an edge of biting wit that sets Andrew Hunter Murray in a class of his own

Janice Hallett

A brilliant and wickedly entertaining murder mystery by a brilliant and wickedly entertaining author

Emma Freud