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  • Published: 24 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804941065
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99

Murder for Busy People




Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy.

Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy.

'This is Parsons at his scintillating best: do not miss it.' Geoffrey Wansell
'A spectacular novel that takes the reader to dark places... I absolutely loved it' Natasha Harding
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Emma Moon is out.

She’s served 16 years for a notorious armed robbery that left two men dead – and enriched many more.

But Emma Moon never talked. She kept the code. She never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery. She never told who killed those two men.

And now she is free – and everything has gone. Her family. Her share of the money. And her faithless husband.

So Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it is payback time. And after all those years inside, she has friends who will do anything for her.

As the bodies of the innocent and the guilty pile up, only one detective stands between a career criminal and her quest for revenge.

The same man who, as a fresh-faced policeman, arrested her all those years ago.

Max Wolfe is back.

Single parent to a teenage daughter, owner of an ageing dog, music lover, hopeless romantic - and a murder detective who has his own code of honour.
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Praise for the Max Wolfe series...
'Parsons is at the very top of his game' Matthew D’Ancona
'An exciting murder mystery with clever characterisation, interesting subplots and a climax that won't disappoint!\" Candis Magazine
'Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic' Lee Child
'A must-read' Jeffrey Deaver
'Eye-widening twists' Sophie Hannah
'Brilliant stuff' Peter James
A breakneck crime thriller\" Woman's Own book club


Tony Parsons, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

  • Published: 24 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804941065
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Tony Parsons

TONY PARSONS is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist.
His books have been published in over forty languages and his multimillion-selling novel
Man and Boy won the Book of the Year prize in 2000.
Most recently, he created the Max Wolfe crime series.
The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe book, went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list and in 2023 was voted one of the
100 best crimes books of all time by the readers of Dead Good Books.
Tony lives in London with his family.

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Praise for Murder for Busy People

A delight . . . This is Parsons at his scintillating best: do not miss it.

Daily Mail

This is another spectacular novel that takes the reader to dark places.

The Sun

A breakneck crime thriller

Woman's Own book club

This is an exciting murder mystery with clever characterisation, interesting subplots and a climax that won’t disappoint!

Candis Magazine
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