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The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death
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  • Published: 8 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781776951413
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $28.00
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The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

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  • Published: 8 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781776951413
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Gareth and Louise Ward

Gareth and Louise Ward are the real-life owners of independent bookshop Wardini Books, with stores in Havelock North and Napier, New Zealand.

Louise is known among the staff as Fearless Leader and Gareth as a bit of a dick; he is, however, the author of the Tarquin the Honest and The Rise of the Remarkables book series, as well as being the bestselling and award-winning author of The Traitor and the Thief and The Clockill and the Thief.

Gareth and Louise met at police training college in the UK and are both ex-coppers. Louise has one murder arrest to her name, is an English Literature Graduate and as an ex-teacher inflicted Shakespeare on inner-city twelve-year-olds. She regularly reviews books on RNZ.

Both are obsessed with their rescue dog Stevie, avoid housework and gardening, and live in the cultural centre of the universe that is Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Bookshop Detectives is Gareth and Louise’s first book together.

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The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise Ward

The Bookshop Detectives are on the case! In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff out a prolific poisoner ahead of a vital fundraising event, the Battle of the Book Clubs. As time runs out and the body count rises, it seems the bad actors are circling closer to the people and places they care about. Find out more https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-bookshop-detectives-2-tea-and-cake-and-death-9781776951024