Ann Granger’s DEAD IN THE WATER will be published on Thursday 2 July by Headline.

DEAD IN THE WATER is the fourth book in the Campbell and Carter mystery series, set in the Cotswolds. As Christmas approaches during the wettest winter on record, the rivers burst their banks and the farmers' fields lie under several feet of water. A young girl's body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer's home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder

Ann Granger is the author of the internationally acclaimed Meredith and Markby and Fran Varady detective series. The first novel in her Victorian crime series, A RARE INTEREST IN CORPSES was published by Headline in 2006.

Entering the top 5 of the German bestseller list with each novel, she has also contributed to several short story volumes, licensed internationally. Headline has published 29 of her crime novels.

She has worked in British embassies in France, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Praise for Ann Granger

‘Ann Granger has shown she can sustain a series… it's worth investing.’ -- Rich Westwood, EuroCrime

‘You can always count on Ann Granger! …Those craving for some nice, English crime-entertainment will be served well.’ -- Kölner Express

‘One of the most reliable practitioners of the crime fiction genre.’ -- Good Book Guide