cover image Die Once

Die Once

Marianne MacDonald. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-312-28360-5

London antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare isn't too surprised when a valued customer's check bounces in Marianne MacDonald's baffling Die Once: A Dido Hoare Mystery; she'd seen the newspaper notice saying he'd jumped to his death from the balcony of his flat. Dido sets out to prove her customer was no suicide in a tangled yarn with special appeal to book-collecting fans.