Author Maureen Paton will be speaking about #TheMysteryatRakeHall and authors as detectives with Josephine Tey at Chiswick Book Festival on 13 September.

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The best new crime and thriller books to read this year The standout titles of 2025 so far span inter-war espionage, gritty violence in modern Glasgow and the return of a cult writer

'Sprightly, elegantly written mystery'

#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton has been selected in @telegraphnews.bsky.social as one of the best new crime and thriller books to read this year.

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The Mystery at Rake Hall (C.S. Lewis Investigates, 1) - Historical Novel Society Recent years have seen an inundation of historical mystery fiction that feature real literary characters solving murders and other crimes. Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, among ma...

'Maureen Paton has done a fine job in introducing Lewis to the world of the investigator' Historical Novel Society

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My mother wanted to protect me from the truth of my birth Former Daily Express writer Maureen Paton always knew she was illegitimate but only learnt she had been born in a London hostel for unmarried women after the loss of her mum. Now, she has written a bo...

Author Maureen Paton talks to @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social
about the true story that inspired her novel #TheMysteryatRakeHall featuring C.S. Lewis as detective.

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#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton 'brilliantly reimagines the story of C.S. Lewis'.

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'Sprightly and elegantly written mystery' @telegraphnews.bsky.social
'Satisfyingly violent' @thetimes.com
'A marvellous literary thriller' Clare Chase

#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton, featuring investigator C.S. Lewis, is out now in hardback and ebook 🖋️

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'I decided to turn the author, academic and Narnia creator C.S. Lewis into a fictional secret detective because his writing was so perceptive about human nature' 🖋️

#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton publishes next week.

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The Mystery at Rake Hall by Maureen Paton BLOG TOUR #TheMysteryatRakeHall @maureen_paton @_SwiftPress #CSLewisInvestigates #BookExtract In post-war Oxford, secrets lie behind every door. In 1947, with rationing still biting and the black market thriving, university don C.S....

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'The dog-eat-dog world of backstreet crime and the don-eat-don world of academia start to collide with satisfyingly violent results' @thetimes.com

#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton features in the best crime fiction of 2025 so far roundup.

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Todays #mysteriousmonday features #CSLewis as a detective in #TheMysteryAtRakeHall by #maureenpaton @swiftpress.bsky.social

Its a very enjoyable read!

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Thanks @swiftpress.bsky.social for my copy of #TheMysteryAtRakeHall #CSLewisInvestigates by #maureenpaton

It’s out on April 10th and I’m super intrigued by this one!

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The Mystery at Rake Hall by Maureen Paton

In post-war Oxford, secrets lie behind every door...

Thank you so much for my copy @swiftpress.bsky.social - I love the sound of this.

The Mystery at Rake Hall is out on 10th April.

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How exciting is this? 🕵️‍♀️🔎 #TheMysteryAtRakeHall by ⁦‪Maureen Paton‬⁩ is set in 1947 in Oxford, where THE C. S. Lewis finds himself solving a murder mystery at a home for unmarried mothers! 😱 Love that premise! Thanks ⁦‪@swiftpress.bsky.social ‬⁩ 🙏 Out April

In post-war Oxford, secrets lie behind every door 🔎

#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton is available on
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Publishing April 2025