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Uzma Jalaluddin‘s hugely popular romance novels have won many hearts. Now she turns to crime and introduces Detective Aunty, the first in a new cozy detective series that sees Kausar, newly widowed, returning to Toronto to help her daughter, who is suspected of murder. Jonathan Whitelaw returns to MOTIVE with the fourth instalment of his much-loved amateur sleuth duo, bingo-loving Amita and her journalist son-in-law Jason, who are now dealing with growing pains in The Garden Club Murders as they become caught up in a series of disappearances where planting the evidence takes on a whole new meaning.

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Detective Aunty

When her grown daughter is suspected of murder, a charming and tenacious widow digs into the case to unmask the real killer in this twisty, page-turning whodunit—the first book in a cozy new detective series from the acclaimed author of Ayesha at Last. After her husband’s unexpected death twelve months earlier, Kausar Khan never thought she’d receive another phone call as heartbreaking—until her thirty-something daughter, Sana, phones to say she’s been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her child, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years.

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Published by HarperCollins Canada

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The Garden Club Murders

Growing, growing, gone… Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down.

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Uzma Jalaluddin

Uzma Jalaluddin is a critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist, playwright, and teacher. She writes nuanced and entertaining stories about Muslims, South Asians, and Canadians and is the author of Much Ado About Nada, Three Holidays and a Wedding, Hana Khan Carries On, and Ayesha at Last, as well as her first play, The Rishta.

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Jonathan Whitelaw

Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster. After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between.

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