Kate Kingsbury, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $13 (291p) ISBN 978-0-425-21200-4
At the start of Kingsbury's 14th Pennyfoot Hotel mystery, series heroine Cecily Baxter is looking forward to a peaceful Christmas without any of the tragic events that marred the previous holiday season (detailed in 2003's No Clue at the...
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Kate Kingsbury, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $13 (296p) ISBN 978-0-425-21849-5
In Kingsbury's charming third holiday-themed Pennyfoot Hotel mystery (after 2006's Slay Bells
), hotel proprietor Cecily Sinclair Baxter is supervising the final details of the decorations in the ballroom while her husband and the stable...
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Kate Kingsbury, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $14 (247p) ISBN 978-0-425-22399-4
At the start of Kingsbury's engaging fourth holiday Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set during the Edwardian era (after 2007's Shrouds of Holly
), amateur sleuth Cecily Sinclair Baxter is hoping for a festive winter season at her hotel on England&#
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Kate Kingsbury, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $14 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-23001-5
The Christmas curse (that is, “something quite dreadful happen[ing] to put a dampener on things”) strikes again in Kingsbury's diverting fifth holiday Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set in Edwardian England (after 2008's Ringing in...
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Kate Kingsbury, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-19188-0
British author Kate Kingsbury (Service for Two) delivers a delightful Christmas whodunit, No Clue at the Inn, a special entry in her Pennyfoot Hotel series. When former owners Cecily Sinclair Baxter and husband Hugh return to the Pennyfoot, now a
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Kate Kingsbury, Author Berkley Trade Pub $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-14223-3
Third in a series of Edwardian mysteries set at the Pennyfoot Hotel in Badgers End, Kingsbury's latest is a rather pedestrian affair. When the wrong body is discovered in the casket of the local doctor and a series of jewel robberies is linked to...
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Kate Kingsbury. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68331-009-9
Melanie West, the heroine of this enjoyable series launch from Kingsbury (Mulled Murder), quits her financial analyst job in Portland, Ore., in order to help Liza Harris, the grandmother who raised her, convert a mansion to an inn located in coastal
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Kate Kingsbury. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-68331-235-2
Kingsbury’s delightful sequel to 2016’s Dead and Breakfast finds former financial analyst Melanie West and her spunky grandmother, Liza Harris, ready for the grand opening of their bed-and-breakfast, the Merry Ghost Inn, in Sully’s Landing, Ore. For
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Kate Kingsbury. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-68331-784-5
Entrepreneur Jason Northwood has big plans to build an arcade in the center of Sully’s Landing, Ore., in Kingsbury’s slow-moving third mystery featuring Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza Harris, the owners of the Merry Ghost Inn (after 2017’s...
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Kate Kingsbury. Berkley Prime Crime, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0592-8
The discovery of a body in the Pennyfoot Hotel’s laundry propels Kingsbury’s sprightly 22nd Pennyfoot Holiday mystery (after 2013’s Mulled Murder), set in Badger’s End, England. When 14-year-old Mazie, a recently hired maid, is arrested by bumbling...
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Kate Kingsbury. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64385-770-1
This solid series launch from Kingsbury (the Pennyfoot Hotel mysteries) opens with Det. Lt. Tony Messina gazing on the pink negligee-clad body of Dean Ramsey, a candy store maintenance worker, who fell to the rocks from the top-floor balcony of the...
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Kate Kingsbury. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63910-066-8
Kingsbury’s uneven sequel to 2021’s In Hot Water finds Vivian Wainwright, the owner of the Willow Pattern Tearoom in Misty Bay, Ore., barely recovered from the excitement of a previous murder case when she dives into solving the murder of local...
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