The book
A manuscript worth stealing. A secret worth killing for.
A comic crime thriller full of art, history, blackmail and very bad decisions.
Learn moreThe first Mills & Morrison mystery
Beethoven’s
Bagatelle
A lost masterpiece.
A deadly secret.
A dealer who can’t resist trouble.
When a long-lost Beethoven manuscript is stolen from a London gallery, disgraced antiques dealer Kingsley Mills is dragged back into a world he thought he’d left behind—along with Detective Sergeant Marnie Morrison.
Some secrets are worth killing for.
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The series
An unlikely partnership in the world of art and antiquities.
Mills knows every trick in the trade. Morrison knows when he is lying. Together, they investigate crimes where provenance is never quite what it seems.
Meet Mills & Morrison
The author
C. M. Zangenberg
Based in Malta, writing of London: mysteries shaped by archives, classical music, troublesome objects and inconvenient truths.
Meet the authorThe partnership
He knows where the bodies are buried.
She knows how to find them.
Kingsley Mills is charming, cynical and usually in financial difficulty. Detective Sergeant Marnie Morrison is sharp, methodical and unimpressed by charm. Unfortunately for both of them, they make a formidable team.
Meet the main characters
Book one
A stolen score opens a case that should have stayed closed.
London’s art world has long memories, flexible morals and a gift for keeping secrets. When a musical manuscript disappears, Mills and Morrison discover that its value has very little to do with Beethoven.
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