Go Not Gently
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Juggling the school run with private investigating, Sal Kilkenny's life is a strange mix of the dramatic with the domestic.Sal has two new clients:Jimmy Achebe wants her to confirm his suspicions of his wife's infidelity and Agnes Donlan fears for her friend Lily, who has undergone a swift decline in her new nursing home.Sal soon finds herself in treacherous territory which threatens to impinge on her private life... Sal Kilkenny Series Looking For Trouble (Book 1) Go Not Gently (Book 2) Dead Wrong (Book 3) Stone Cold Red Hot (Book 4) Towers of Silence (Book 5) Bitter Blue (Book 6) Missing (Book 7) Crying Out Loud (Book 8) Praise for Cath Staincliffe: 'A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes it's kinder and braver to lie. Stunning.' Anne Cleeves 'Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail'. Literary Review 'Complex and satisfying.' The Sunday Times. 'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out. 'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that.' Val McDermid. 'an engrossing read'. Sunday Telegraph
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Crying Out Loud
Towers of Silence (Sal Kilkenny Mysteries) (Sal Kilkenny Mysteries)
A whiff of scandal
Keeps the nosy-neighbours village texture and domestic mess of the seed, but swaps murder for comedy and a guaranteed happy couple.
Night Music
Shares the seed's grounded focus on money troubles, kids and vulnerable households, though the tension comes from grief and romance rather than investigation.
Foreign Fruit
Same interest in small-community secrets and quiet cruelty, but slower, historical, and driven by a forbidden love rather than a case.
The way you make me feel
Retains the juggling-work-and-family rhythm with a much lighter, funnier tone and a teen romance instead of crime.