Ann Granger: Running Scared (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
Aspiring actress and part-time private investigator Fran Varady knew there would be maximum disruption when her friend Ganesh decided to modernise his uncle's newsagents, starting with the washroom. But she isn't prepared for the nightmare that begins when an agitated passer-by asks to use it: hours later, he's found stabbed to death, leaving a message for Fran to meet him, and a mysterious roll of film hidden behind the old pipes... Fran realises that whoever wanted the negatives knows where they were hidden. And, probably, where they are now. With her police protection more a hindrance than a help, an old friend, Tig, on the verge of collapse, and the builders wreaking havoc in the shop, can Fran find out why someone is prepared to murder for the negatives - before they find her?

Ann Granger: Running Scared. A Fran Varady Crime Novel. Headline eBook, ISBN: 9780755377251 (December, 2010), 1023 KB (324 p.), £5.99.

Ann Granger: Running Scared (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
Aspiring actress and part-time private investigator Fran Varady knew there would be maximum disruption when her friend Ganesh decided to modernise his uncle's newsagents, starting with the washroom. But she isn't prepared for the nightmare that begins when an agitated passer-by asks to use it: hours later, he's found stabbed to death, leaving a message for Fran to meet him, and a mysterious roll of film hidden behind the old pipes...

Fran realises that whoever wanted the negatives knows where they were hidden. And, probably, where they are now. With her police protection more a hindrance than a help, an old friend, Tig, on the verge of collapse, and the builders wreaking havoc in the shop, can Fran find out why someone is prepared to murder for the negatives - before they find her?

Ann Granger: Running Scared. A Fran Varady Crime Novel. Headline, ISBN: 0747255776 (June, 1999), £5.99.

Ann Granger: Running Scared (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Fran Varady, aspiring actress and part-time private investigator, feared the worst when her friend Ganesh decided to use their less than reliable builder acquaintance, Hitch, to update his Uncle Hari's newsagents shop - starting with the toilet. But even she couldn't guess at the trouble that follows when a man bursts in and asks to use the washroom, and is later found stabbed to death. Before he died he left a message asking Fran to meet him and, she discovers, a roll of film secreted behind the washroom's old pipes.

As she tries to work out what the photographs represent, and with her landlady being pressurised to sell her home, Hitch wreaking havoc at the shop and her friend, squat-dweller Tig, having gone missing again, Fran finds her difficulties have barely started...

Engagingly lively, briskly plotted and irresistibly likeable, Ann Granger's Fran Varady novels have been enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers alike. This is the third in the series.

Ann Granger: Running Scared. A Fran Varady Crime Novel. Headline, ISBN: 0747218692 (November, 1998), 310 p., £16.99.