{"id":1613,"date":"2025-11-10T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:14:24","slug":"may-i-introduce-you-to-cissie-partridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2025\/11\/may-i-introduce-you-to-cissie-partridge\/","title":{"rendered":"May I Introduce You To Cissie Partridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a break of more than two years I have finally got my writing mojo back and am pleased to announce that I have a new book out on 9th December! A Body in the Banjo is (I hope) the first in a series of cosy mysteries with unlikely sleuth Cissie Partridge as the protagonist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s November 1958 and Dagenham is excitedly awaiting Bonfire Night. Cissie Partridge isn\u2019t too keen on fireworks but she generously donates to the local children doing Penny for the Guy. Cissie is content with her lot. She loves her husband Harold. She shops; she cooks; she reads at every opportunity; she helps out at the Docklands Settlement and she gets on with her neighbours. Cissie is sharp and observant and not much gets past her. Then, one morning, she finds a body\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the title suggests this book, like two of my previous Dagenham based novels, is set in a fictitious banjo. A banjo? If you know you know!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The book will be available for Kindle and in paperback from Amazon.co.uk You can pre-order for Kindle on this link \u2014 ASIN:BOGIKZ52TK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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