The Summer Guests
  • Published: 25 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857505422
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99

The Summer Guests

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Tr. Paperback
25 Mar 2025
Hardback
27 Apr 2025
EBook
27 Mar 2025
Audiobook
27 Mar 2025
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The brand new action-packed novel in the Sunday Times bestselling Martini Club series. Includes an exclusive short story with Lee Child featuring Jack Reacher and Maggie Bird.

The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast.

‘The Thursday Murder Club on steroids’ SAGA Magazine

THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . .

Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this summer they plan little more than ‘reading’ (whilst sipping martinis), and some gentle birdwatching.

But trouble is just around the corner as the summer guests arrive.

For acting Police Chief Jo Thibodeau, summer brings its own problems – packed streets, bar brawls, petty theft. And now, a missing teenager down by the lake.

When their good friend becomes a prime suspect in the girl's disappearance, Maggie and her Martini Club must put down their binoculars and roll up their sleeves. Leaving Jo to deal with not only a powerful family desperate for answers, but a meddlesome group of retirees.

Can Jo and the Martini Club find a way to work together, as they uncover one of the deadliest scandals their small town has ever seen?
  • Published: 25 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857505422
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Tess Gerritsen

Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is also a physician, and she brings to her novels her first-hand knowledge of emergency and autopsy rooms. Her thrillers starring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TV series Rizzoli & Isles. But Tess’s interests span far more than medicine and crime. As an anthropology student at Stanford University, she catalogued centuries-old human remains, and she continues to travel the world, driven by her fascination with ancient cultures and bizarre natural phenomena.

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Also by Tess Gerritsen

The Spy Coast
Listen To Me
The Shape of Night
I Know a Secret
Playing with Fire
Die Again
Harvest
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Praise for The Summer Guests

The Thursday Murder Club on steroids

SAGA Magazine [for The Spy Coast]

Action-packed pages, G-force twists and turns, and a platoon of fascinating characters

David Baldacci [for The Spy Coast]

What a ride – The Summer Guests hooked me from the first explosive chapter, leaving me desperate to find out what was going on. Immersive, compelling, utterly addictive – a masterclass in storytelling.

Andrea Mara

I love this new series . . . The Summer Guests is a cracker of a mystery! I couldn’t put it down.

Shari Lapena

Lots of beautifully crafted intelligent fun

Crime Time
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