Emily Winslow book launch with Bodies in the Bookshop

Bodies in the Bookshop hosts Emily Winslow's relaunch of her Keene & Frohmann series with new covers by Kate Cromwell. Emily will talk about the series, books will be available to buy, Kate Cromwell's book art will be on display, and Emily, an experienced puzzle designer, will have new puzzles for attendees to try to solve. Join us!

Tickets to attend are free. For your convenience, you can buy books in advance as well as in person. If you do buy in advance, please email [email protected] to say if you would like them signed, to whom to make them out, and, if buying single books, which ones you'd like.

Emily Winslow’s novels of psychological suspense are set in Cambridge, England, star investigators Morris Keene and Chloe Frohmann, and are told through multiple first-person narrators. Her fiction has been called “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “vivid” (Parade magazine) and “dazzling” (Shelf Awareness). They were originally published in the US by Random House and HarperCollins and in the UK by Allison & Busby.

If read in order there’s an arc in the detectives’ personal lives, but each book contains a standalone crime and investigation that can easily be enjoyed out of order.

THE WHOLE WORLD

“Emily Winslow is a precise and expert analyst of the darkest parts of the human psyche.” –internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah

American students Polly and Liv are giddy over the accents and architecture of Cambridge University. They both fall for the same charming graduate student.

Then he disappears.

Told through five narrators whose personal obsessions limit what each of them sees, The Whole World is the story of the desperation and malice that take them by surprise while they’re all looking elsewhere.

“The Whole World shines as a potent look at the self-absorption and angst of youth and the regrets and doubts of middle age.” – The Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A first novel about growing up, having sex and going seriously off the rails at Cambridge University.” – Palm Beach Post summer reading list

“What a ride! Read this book.” – Decatur Daily

THE START OF EVERYTHING

“A masterful whodunnit!” – Number 1 NY Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner

The envelopes are addressed to simply “Katja” above the name of a Cambridge college, but no one by that name attends or works there. The early letters are desperate; the later ones are angry. No one knows who the messages are meant for, until a seemingly accidental death involves the police, who are already overwhelmed by an unidentified body in the fens.

Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann struggles against DCI Morris Keene’s theory of their case even as she’s forced to confront evidence that he may be right, and lives hang in the balance.

“Winslow is brilliant at portraying the ragged fragments of these lives. What emerges isn’t a single killer with motive and means, but a tangle of stories crossing and colliding, stray intersections of incidents and accidents, misunderstandings and misreadings, all thanks to the myopia of individual perspectives and the self-centeredness of individual desires.” –The Washington Post

“The Start of Everything has the artistry of literature, the grittiness of a best-selling crime thriller, the complexity of an academic puzzle and characters you will not easily forget.” – Booklover Book Reviews

“Dazzling in its ingenuity and gripping in its suspense.” – Shelf Awareness

THE RED HOUSE

“Psychological crime writing at its best.” – Kate Rhodes, author of the Isles of Scilly Mysteries

Maxwell’s fiancée Imogen is obsessed with her idyllic childhood in Cambridge, which was cut short by her parents’ deaths when she was only eight years old. She and her siblings were separated by adoption, and in adulthood she’s managed to reconnect with them all except for the youngest. When she brings Maxwell to visit, he, too, remembers Cambridge, even though he never lived there. His unexpected déjà vu forces him to consider that he may actually be Imogen’s missing brother. Worse, he fears that she may already know that he is, and be marrying him anyway.

Literal buried skeletons discovered next to an old barn link a suspicious suicide in the present day to Imogen’s childhood, revealing horrors in the past and triggering danger in the present.

“The Red House is a triumph. DI Chloe Frohmann is on top form, and never far from the truth. Time these excellent stories were snapped up by a TV company." – Books Monthly

“Multi-layered and intriguing, satisfyingly twisty. I stayed up far too late to find out what had happened." – Bookbag

“I could practically hear a click as I began The Red House. I was hooked before finishing the prologue.” – Booklover Book Reviews

LOOK FOR HER

“Look for Her ratchets up the tension while offering moments of sheer grace.” – NY Times bestselling author Riley Sager

In 1976, a teenage girl named Annalise Wood disappeared, and though her body was later discovered, the culprit was never found. Decades later, Annalise maintains a perverse kind of celebrity, and is still the focus of grief, speculation, and for one young woman, a disturbing, escalating jealousy.

When DNA linked to the Annalise M**der unexpectedly surfaces, cold case detective Morris Keene and his former partner, Chloe Frohmann, hope to finally bring closure to this traumatized community. But the new evidence instead undoes the case’s only certainty: the buried body that had long ago been confidently identified as Annalise may be someone else entirely, and instead of answers, the investigators face only new puzzles.

“Winslow spins the plot to a satisfying and humane conclusion, with Keene and Frohmann again proving to be a winning pair.” —Booklist

“Look for Her is a fantastic mystery thriller and a sharp portrayal of grief, curiosity and jealousy. If you aren’t already reading the series, you definitely should be.” —BookTrib

“Winslow paints a complex and compelling portrait of a cold case that is far from dead and buried. The combination of raw emotion and psychological sophistry is beguiling.” —Booklover Book Reviews

Host or Publisher Emily Winslow