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  • Published: 7 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804956700
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Shrink Solves Murder




The warm, witty and wise crime caper by the nation's favourite therapist

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR***

**OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**

'Fantastic book: wickedly witty, with delightful, quirky characters and a cracking plot' JAQUELINE WILSON
'An assured and hugely enjoyable murder mystery debut. It's brilliant!' RICHARD COLES
'A joy. Cosy crime with a side order of psychological insight' JENNIE GODFREY

Her 3 o’clock just became a murder case...

When a body is found near Beachy Head, the police chalk it up to suicide — a tragic but not uncommon end in these parts.

But local psychotherapist Patricia Phillips isn’t convinced.

The victim? Her three o’clock patient, Henry Clayton.

The cause of death is supposedly self-inflicted. Yet Pat can’t shake the belief that someone wanted Henry Clayton dead. She spends her working life listening to histories and secrets, and she has a nose for when a story doesn’t quite ring true.

Drawn from the therapy room to the crime scene, Pat begins to notice what others appear to overlook.

At her side is her best friend Prichard — a home-brewer of fearsome, stomach-turning concoctions, an excellent cook, and a man who seems to get along with everyone. Which makes him useful for infiltrating village life.

As Pat and Prichard look beneath the village’s thin veneer of normality — one that barely conceals its appetites — they discover a killer hiding in plain sight.

Shrink Solves Murder is a warm, witty, and perceptive crime caper from the nation’s favourite therapist.

  • Published: 7 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804956700
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

Philippa Perry

PHILIPPA PERRY is an artist and psychotherapist as well as a TV and radio presenter. She is the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read?(*And Maybe a Few You Don’t), published by Cornerstone Press. Her books have been translated in over 40 languages.

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Praise for Shrink Solves Murder

I’ve always admired the sleuth in Philippa Perry and that’s more than vindicated in this assured and hugely enjoyable murder mystery debut. It’s brilliant!

Richard Coles

Fantastic book: wickedly witty, with delightful quirky characters and a cracking plot

Dame Jacqueline Wilson

What a joy Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry is. This is cosy crime with a side order of psychological insight and fabulously real characters. Already looking forward to the next one!

Jennie Godfrey

A cunning murder disguised as a suicide, a brilliant psychotherapist who doesn’t believe what she’s told, and a cast of village eccentrics who help (and hinder) her investigations, this is cosy crime at its most enjoyable

Natalie Haynes

A crash course in psychotherapy cunningly disguised as a very entertaining murder mystery

Henning Wehn