The Next Deadly Chapter

Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington is engaged to be married-but she may have to step over a few bodies before she walks down the aisle . . . Allwanted was to make a good impression on her fiancé Frank‘s mother, the very proper Dr. Camilia Patterson. But when Nano Jo and the lively ladies of Shady Acres Retirement Village throw a surprise bridal shower forat the Four Feathers Casino-watch out! Things spin out of control faster than a roulette wheel. Fortunately,knows when to fold ‘em and slips back to her room to work on her latest historical mystery set between the wars, in which a houseguest meets a grim end at an English country manor. The morning after brings another rude surprise.gets a frantic call from Camilia, who‘s discovered a dead body in her room. Now winning over her soon-to-be mother-in-law means keeping the good doctor out of a potential scandal and attempting to discreetly solve a murder without ruffling any feathers. For that she‘ll need the help of Nano Jo-not exactly the soul of discretion-Detective ‘Stinky‘ Pitt, and the ladies-because the casino killer keeps upping the ante. . . Praise for Murder on Tour ‘This novel, like Burns‘s others, wipes the mind clean of anything but pure enjoyment.‘ -New York Times Book Review