Antony Johnston
Award-winning New York Times bestseller
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The Dog Sitter Detective
Murder mysteries . . . with dogs!

“A country house, a body in the library, a cast of dodgy wedding guests, and a prickly, dog-loving sleuth . . . Simply delightful!”
Vaseem Khan

Retired actress Guinevere ‘Gwinny’ Tuffel is finding life hard after inheriting her late father's run-down home and discovering she's broke. But Gwinny’s delighted to be at her best friend Tina's country house, for Tina's wedding to a handsome Italian business magnate . . . until the husband-to-be is found dead in the library and Tina is accused of the murder.

Convinced of her friend's innocence, Gwinny must piece together the truth and uncover the real killer from a pool of larger-than-life suspects, who all have something to hide . . . while also looking after Tina's expensive saluki dogs!

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The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead
Musical Murder on the canals of London’s Little Venice

“Warm, witty, and wildly entertaining”
Katy Watson

Gwinny Tuffel is preparing for her first acting role in a decade in the West End, but she is still dog-sitting on the side to keep the wolf from the door. So, when ageing rock star Crash Double needs help with his Border Collie, she jumps at the chance. After all, looking after the charming Ace on Crash's Little Venice houseboat shouldn't be an onerous task. But that's before the singer's dead body surfaces during the annual Canal Carnival festivities.

While the police dismiss the death as an accident, Gwinny suspects murder most foul. With a medley of suspects and some far-fetched motives to make heads or tails of, it is up to Gwinny, with Ace's on the ground knowledge, to make sure the killer faces the music!

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The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead
A baffling locked-room murder on a Yorkshire film set

TO BE PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2025

Gwinny Tuffel is on location in the misty Yorkshire Dales filming a small part in Draculania, a genderswapped remake of Bram Stoker's classic tale, when life begins to imitate art a little too closely. One of the cast members is found dead inside a locked trailer, with a stake through their heart.

With a prima donna in the starring role, filming is already facing delays, while Gwinny is being run ragged by Lily, the Jack Russell terrier she's looking after for a friend in hospital. Against the backdrop of Hendale Hall with its own vampire legend, a flesh-and-blood killer has struck. Will Gwinny be able to find the murderer before the production or any further victims are cut?

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The Exphoria Code
Fast-paced spy thrillers ripped from the headlines

“Possibly the definitive espionage thriller of the early 21st century”
Alan Moore

NEW SPIES. NEW RULES.

MI6 cyber-analyst Brigitte Sharp has been deskbound for three years after her very first field op went badly wrong. But when her best friend is murdered in connection to a series of strange internet posts, Bridge must infiltrate a top secret military project to root out the killer. There she learns that the truth behind the Exphoria code is worse than anyone imagined, and soon Bridge is on the run as a deadly terrorist plot unfolds . . .

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The Organised Writer
A productivity guide for writers

“The Marie Kondo of writing”
Linda Stratmann

A productivity system designed for writers, by a writer.

The Organised Writer outlines Antony's own methods and processes for getting work done and juggling multiple projects, after more than a decade of real-world use. Written in a conversational and page-turning style, The Organised Writer is a practical and focused approach to writing for every author who wishes they could take control of their workload.

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Atomic Blonde
The original graphic novel

“Johnston masterfully draws the story to a height, tension and speed rising . . . brilliantly and subtly done”
The AV Club

Originally published as The Coldest City, this is the graphic novel that became a $100 million box-office movie starring Charlize Theron.

November 1989. Communism is collapsing, and the Berlin Wall is about to fall. But first, MI6 officer Lorraine Broughton must retrieve a list of spies before it falls into the wrong hands. She walks into a powderkeg of social unrest, counter-espionage, defections gone bad and secret assassinations . . . and nothing is what it seems.

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