Elizabeth J. Duncan, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-55853-6
A runaway bride is the linchpin of Canadian writer Duncan’s delightful debut, which has won the Minotaur/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition. Expatriate Canadian manicurist Penny Brannigan is grieving after the...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan, Minotaur, $23.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-62282-4
In Duncan's absorbing second Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2009's The Cold Light of Mourning), the Canadian ex-pat and artist has unexpectedly inherited a cottage in the village of Llanelen, Wales, from her late schoolteacher friend, Emma Teasdale.
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-62283-1
Duncan’s leisurely third Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2010’s A Brush with Death) finds the Welsh town of Llanelen dealing with heavy snow and ice as the townspeople prepare for Christmas. Penny and her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk, are...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00825-1
Penny Brannigan, owner of the Llanelen Spa, finds that some members of the clergy aren't as saintly as they appear in Duncan's sweet fifth mystery set in North Wales (after 2012's A Small Hill to Die On). Penny joins her boyfriend, Det. Chief Insp....
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-05521-7
Dorothy Sayers fans will welcome Duncan’s fifth Penny Brannigan mystery set in North Wales (after 2013’s Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By). When the body of the primary organizer of the annual St. David’s Day concert is discovered in the abandoned...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Crooked Lane (crookedlanebooks.com), $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62953-191-5
What could have more charm than a cozy set in the Catskills? Why, a cozy about a Shakespearean theater company at a vintage resort in the Catskills, of course. This appealing series launch from Agatha Award–finalist Duncan is perfectly accessorized...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07423-2
The TV show Antiques Cymru comes to the Welsh town of Llanelen in Duncan’s well-paced seventh Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2015’s Slated for Death). On filming and appraisal day, Catrin Bellis, a shy, quiet young woman whose parents are recently...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62953-769-6
Duncan’s lightweight sequel to 2015’s Untimely Death finds costume designer Charlotte Fairfax involved in the preparations for a special performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to accompany the wedding of the daughter of Paula Van Dusen, the chief...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-10147-1
In Duncan’s lackluster eighth mystery featuring spa owner and artist Penny Brannigan (after 2016’s Murder on the Hour), Penny finds a body in the grounds of Gwrych Castle, near her home in North Wales. The dead man volunteered with a crew renovating
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68331-325-0
In Duncan’s sprightly third cozy featuring costume designer Charlotte Fairfax (after 2016’s Ill Met by Murder), Charlotte has happily settled in as the costume director for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company. Everyone is pleased that well-know
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-10149-5
Set in Llanelen, Wales, Duncan’s middling ninth Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2017’s Murder Is for Keeps) finds Penny and Victoria Hopkirk, co-owners of Llanelen Spa, volunteering to help at the home crafts section of the town’s agricultural show....
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64385-113-6
In Duncan’s workmanlike 10th mystery featuring spa owner Penny Brannigan (after 2018’s The Marmalade Murders), Penny’s friend Emyr Gruffydd asks her to help organize a party that Emyr is hosting at Ty Brith Hall in Llanelen, Wales. The highlight of...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64385-468-7
Duncan’s solid 11th Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2019’s Remembering the Dead) sends watercolorist Penny to the picturesque Welsh town of Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey for a painting course taught by Bill Ward, a TV personality turned artist.
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Elizabeth J. Duncan, read by Anne Flosnik. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, five CDs, 6.5 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62406-797-6
In this fifth mystery in Duncan’s Penny Brannigan series, what was supposed to be a pleasant conference at a beautiful Welsh library turns into another deadly case for full-time spa-owner and part-time detective Brannigan and her significant other,...
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Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-00824-4
In Duncan's solid if unsurprising fourth cozy featuring nail salon owner Penny Brannigan (after 2011's A Killer's Christmas in Wales), Mai Grimstead, the owner of Nailz, a chain of nail bars and tanning salons, has just moved to Llanelen, Wales. Mai
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