Dutch Me Deadly: A Passport to Peril Mystery

Agatha Award–finalist Hunter’s mildly amusing seventh Passport to Peril mystery (after 2007’s Norway to Hide) takes tour guide Emily Andrew-Miceli and a group of feisty, smartphone-savvy senior Iowans, including her streetwise grandmother, to Holland. Joining the troubled tour are members of a squabbling, antisocial high school class from Bangor, Maine, celebrating their 50th reunion. When the snippy Kansan tour director, Charlotte, stumbles off an Amsterdam sidewalk into the path of a bicyclist with fatal results, Emily suspects Charlotte’s death was no accident, especially since so many Mainers were nearby who could have given her a push. As the body count rises, a flustered Emily does some covert sleuthing, aided by her transsexual ex-husband, who suddenly appears out of nowhere. This generic cozy offers the usual stock characters and situations. Agent: Irene Goodman. (Feb.)