{"title":"Kat Ailes","description":"KAT AILES (she\/her) works in publishing as an editor and freelanced for several years to take a couple of belated gap years, including hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. She now lives in the Cotswolds with her husband, their young son and her beautiful but foolish dog. The Expectant Detectives was her debut novel, the first draft of which was written largely in three weeks after she submitted the first few chapters to the Comedy Women in Print Prize and was unexpectedly shortlisted.","products":[{"product_id":"dead-tired-a-mystery-paperback","title":"Dead Tired: A Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, \u003ci\u003eDead Tired\u003c\/i\u003e follows a group of new moms who didn't think their maternity leave would involve so much murder. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Full of charming characters, including Alice's goofy dog, this fast-paced, original cozy is great fun.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing a new mom is murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice didn't think her maternity leave would involve so much, well, \u003ci\u003emurder.\u003c\/i\u003e Before becoming proud new moms, she and her friends bonded more than members of a prenatal group usually would, as they became accidental amateur sleuths and solved a crime together. Now, with all this behind them and Alice's son Jack somehow already a year old, Alice is keen to finally catch up on some sleep. So when an opportunity presents itself in the unlikely form of an eco-protest, Alice and her friends willingly chain themselves to trees and settle in as an excuse to get some overdue rest. Not the most comfortable arrangement ever, but at this point, they'll take what they can get. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e However, the next morning one of their fellow protesters is found strangled, and any hope of a peaceful interlude is suddenly swept away. Soon Alice and her friends become entangled in a plot involving rogue artists, an enigmatic local entrepreneur, and nude (optional) protesting, offering an unexpected--but not necessarily unwelcome--break from changing diapers and wrestling baby toys away from Helen the dog. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice, whose success rate in solving countryside murder is at an all-time high (one out of one), cannot resist the chance to demonstrate her detective skills once more, and assembles her gang of new moms to investigate this latest mystery in their not-so-sleepy English countryside village.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103243374815,"sku":"9781250322753","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gCSHgAkKyK9781250322753.webp?v=1781090563"},{"product_id":"the-expectant-detectives-paperback","title":"The Expectant Detectives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFresh, funny and heartfelt, \u003ci\u003eThe Expectant Detectives \u003c\/i\u003eis Kat Ailes's charming debut mystery about a group of soon-to-be moms-turned-detectives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A darkly witty debut. Archly funny and highly recommended!\"--Deanna Raybourn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan they solve the mother of all murders?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she'll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they'd hoped for doesn't quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a cloud of suspicion hanging over the heads of the whole group, Alice and her new-found pregnant friends set out to solve the mystery and clear their names, with the help of her troublesome dog, Helen. However, there are more secrets and tensions in the heart of Penton than first meet the eye. Between the discovery of a shady commune up in the woods, the unearthing of a mysterious death years earlier, and the near-tragic poisoning of Helen, Alice is soon in way over her head.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104816435423,"sku":"9781250322722","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/V3WpBEzgc9781250322722.webp?v=1781111379"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kat-ailes.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}