Lesley Thomson, Lisa Holloway

Lesley Thomson in Conversation with Lisa Holloway.

This new title is the latest in the bestselling Detective's Daughter series. Rejoin Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, as she investigates a decades-old mystery in Kew Gardens.

The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the woman had gone.

Forty years later, Stella Darnell, the detective’s daughter, is investigating a chilling new case. What she uncovers will draw her into the obsessive world of botany and towards an unsolved murder hat has lain dormant for decades.

Lesley Thomson is from Lewes. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was a #1 bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies.

Lisa Holloway runs an Arts event in Brighton called The Space.