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  • Published: 2 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804948057
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00

Murder for Busy People





Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy.

Emma Moon is out.

She's served nine years hard time for an armed robbery that killed two men and enriched many more.

But Emma’s never talked; she's never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery or who killed both men. And she's never given up the money.

And now she's free. But everything has gone: her family; her share of the money and her faithless loser of a husband.

So now Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it's payback time and, after nine years inside, she has friends and she has disciples - people who will do anything for her.

As the bodies of the innocent and the guilty pile up, one detective stands between a career criminal and her quest for revenge.

Max Wolfe, single parent of a teenage daughter, a fiercely independent detective who owes nothing to anyone and who has own very particular form of justice ...

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Praise for the Max Wolfe series ...

'Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic' Lee Child
'A must-read' Jeffrey Deaver
'Eye-widening twists' Sophie Hannah
'Brilliant stuff' Peter James

  • Published: 2 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804948057
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00

About the author

Tony Parsons

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here.

Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have been Sunday Times top five bestsellers.

Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan.

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Praise for Murder for Busy People

A delight . . . This is Parsons at his scintillating best: do not miss it.

Daily Mail

This is another spectacular novel that takes the reader to dark places.

The Sun

A breakneck crime thriller

Woman's Own book club

This is an exciting murder mystery with clever characterisation, interesting subplots and a climax that won’t disappoint!

Candis Magazine