The Shamrock Detective Agency presents…
Julie Broussely is the author of the humorous mystery series The Shamrock Detective Agency, which starts with Death On A Tiny Scale. Book two, A Party To Death, was published on 25 November 2025 and book three is currently in progress!
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Death On Hold
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The Shamrock Detective Agency series begins with the prequel Death On Hold. This short story features Toby’s run in with Life and Death and the hidden meaning of déjà vu. You can read it before or after Death On A Tiny Scale and everything still makes sense and there are no spoilers. Join the newsletter to receive the ebook for free, along with monthly updates with exclusive book news and much more. To sign up, just fill in your email address using the form above.
Death On A Tiny Scale
The Shamrock Detective Agency presents…
Inheriting a private detective agency in a different country and from a complete stranger was absolutely not on Monday’s to-do list for London office worker Toby Solano.
He soon finds himself stumbling through an unfamiliar world of peculiar crimes, unfeasibly long Dutch words, and troublesome questions about his benefactor. Toby travels to the historic city of The Hague to close the failing business and avoid financial ruin. But his plan is abruptly derailed when he is forced to investigate a suspicious death at a miniature village tourist attraction.
In desperation, Toby enlists the local expertise and sharp wit of the singularly blunt Meredith Wright. It’s a race against time to solve the mystery, close the agency and avoid adopting an insistent stray cat.
Set in The Hague, Amsterdam and London, Death On A Tiny Scale mixes a fiendishly twisty crime with comical observations of cross-cultural confusion. Not least, the problem of finding a decent cup of tea when you’re not at home…
Death On A Tiny Scale, the first book in The Shamrock Detective Agency series, was published on 30 September 2024.
A Party To Death
The investigation continues…
Toby Solano returns to The Hague to launch The Shamrock Detective Agency and to unearth the truth about the mysterious Arnold Exford – the dead and buried benefactor who apparently just tried to call his mobile…
A murder mystery-themed party invitation is hardly what Toby and his quick-witted sidekick Meredith envisaged for their new career as crime-fighters. But as evening falls and the guests gather, a deadly game begins and nothing is quite what it seems.
An elaborate investigation plays out against the delightful backdrop of narrow cobblestone streets, ornate Gothic churches, and wide well-surfaced cycle lanes. The Shamrock Detective Agency must risk reputation, personal safety, and spilt tea to prove it can hunt down a killer.
Will a neighbourhood of eccentric characters, poisonous fish, an opinionated cat, and dangerous coastal weather be a help or hindrance to the intrepid detectives?
Tea will be drunk, maps consulted, secret histories exhumed and at least one very long Dutch word mispronounced.
A Party To Death, the second book in The Shamrock Detective Agency series, was published on 25 November 2025.
About the author
Julie Broussely writes mystery stories she hopes will make you laugh and test your wits, and quite possibly inspire vague notions of wanting to visit watery, bicycle-obsessed European cities. She lives in the sunny Netherlands where it definitely doesn’t rain quite all the time, rather like her native England, although there are a lot more windmills and cycling is virtually mandatory.
She is constantly brimming with ideas for novels, so the Shamrock series will be followed by some more tea-fuelled adventures in the mystery and other genres.
The Shamrock Detective Agency series will continue with book three in 2026…join the mailing list to be the first to hear when it’s out!
