Murder at the Book Club: A DCI Chloe Taylor Mystery

Colin Wade

Oct 2026 · Book Guild Publishing

About this ebook

Two years after solving The Murder at the Manor, Detective Chief Inspector Chloe Taylor has another murder on her hands. A member of a local book club has been poisoned, but the motive for her murder is unclear.

Taylor’s initial investigation is hampered by the fact that one of the book club members, Rosemary Channing-Brearley, is a personal friend of the Chief Constable and a member of the Police Commissioner’s crime panel. The worst type of social climber, she lords her superiority over Taylor and the rest of the book club.

Two more brutal murders follow, both involving members of the same book club. Two suspects are quickly identified, and Taylor comes under increasing pressure to convict them based on seemingly compelling evidence. But the more her team investigates, the more convinced they become that dark secrets within the book club, and a deep hatred of Channing-Brearley, are key to solving the case.

As Taylor tries to balance the stresses of work with her husband’s desire for them to have another child, her resilience is stretched to the limit as she searches for the truth.

Can she solve the Murder at the Book Club?

About the author

Colin Wade is an author of eight crime and murder mystery thrillers. Murder at the Book Club is his latest novel and his first sequel, featuring DCI Chloe Taylor who first appeared in his sixth novel, Murder at the Manor. Colin has written one book a year since 2019 and the other titles are The Lost Years, Plutus, Deadly Connections, The Sins of the Father, The Devil’s Code and The Oxford Mystery.