Description
Join bestselling author C.J. Skuse to celebrate the launch of Darling Bud, her darkly funny new thriller from the world of the hit Sweetpea series.
Meet Ivy, an ordinary 16-year-old with an extraordinary family history: her mother is Rhiannon Lewis, the infamous Sweetpea killer. When Ivy’s football coach is found dead, she is forced to confront the rage within her, and the question of whether murder runs in the family.
Hear C.J. discuss creating this wickedly sharp new protagonist, returning to the Sweetpea universe, and balancing humour, suspense and bloodshed in her unmissable new novel.
About the Author
C.J. Skuse
C.J. Skuse is the bestselling author of the Sweetpea series and six further novels spanning YA and adult crime fiction. Skuse’s work has won the Dumfries and Burgh Book Award and France’s Jean Monnet Prize. The adult debut, Sweetpea, was adapted for television by See-Saw Films, premiering on Sky Atlantic in 2024, with a second series coming out later in 2026.
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