“The Penguin Killer” by Ste Sharp (2020)

“I could tell he was a copper by the way he leaned on my desk.”

Wait, come back! I haven’t picked up a book about how to murder Antarctic birds! In this case, the penguin of the title is the publishing house. Ste Sharp has used their distinctive covers to bring this murder mystery to life.

It’s the summer of 1995, the height of Britpop, and while Blur and Oasis battle it out in the charts for the number one spot, twenty-one-year-old Luke Redfern is running his grandfather’s second hand bookshop ...