A Tourist's Guide to Murder

by V. M. Burns

Overview

Author, amateur sleuth, and bookstore owner Samantha Washington finds herself on a tragical mystery tour while visiting the land of Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes in the sixth Mystery Bookshop Series installment from V.M. Burns.

Sam joins Nana Jo and her Shady Acres Retirement Village friends Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae on a weeklong trip to London, England, to experience the Peabody Mystery Lovers Tour. The chance to see the sights and walk the streets that inspired Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a dream come true for Sam—and a perfect way to celebrate her new publishing contract as a mystery author.

But between visits to Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel district and 221B Baker Street, Major Horace Peabody is found dead, supposedly of natural causes. Despite his employer's unfortunate demise, the tour guide insists on keeping calm and carrying on—until another tourist on their trip also dies under mysterious circumstances. Now it's up to Sam and the Shady Acres ladies to mix and mingle among their fellow mystery lovers, find a motive, and turn up a murderer...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496728951
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	01/26/2021
Series:	Mystery Bookshop Series , #6
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	91,584
Product dimensions:	5.57(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Valerie (V. M.) Burns is a mystery writer whose novels and short stories have been finalists for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She is the author of the Mystery Bookshop, Dog Club, RJ Franklin, and Baker Street Mystery series. Valerie is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and the Crime Writers' Association. She is also an adjunct professor in the Writing Popular Fiction Program at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Born and raised in northwestern Indiana, Valerie now lives in the southeastern United States with her two poodles. Connect with Valerie at VMBurns.com.

Editorial Reviews

2020-11-18
A Michigan mystery author and bookshop owner’s trip to England entangles her in a real-life murder.

Sam Washington and her sidekicks—Nana Jo, Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae—are visiting London so that Sam, who’s just sold her first mystery to a publisher, can gather local color. They almost miss the plane, and all their luggage is lost, but that’s nothing a trip to Harrods can’t fix. Arriving at their hotel to join a tour that specializes in famous mystery sites, they find their guide, Clive Green, arguing with his disagreeable boss, Maj. Horace Peabody, over Peabody’s plans to sell the firm. Sam has solved several mysteries, so when she discovers Peabody dead, she doesn’t buy the story of a fatal heart attack, but the tour goes on anyway. Sam takes every moment of spare time from sightseeing to work on her newest country-house whodunit, but she can’t ignore the mystery in front of her nose. Hostilities break out between Peabody’s niece, who claims to be his heir, and tour member Prudence Habersham, who claims that her put-upon daughter, Lavender, is Peabody’s child. When Prudence is found dead, the group is grilled by DI Nelson, whose inefficient inquiries virtually force Sam and her cohorts to up their game. As the group continues their tour, many hidden secrets pop up, finally leading Sam to an inescapable conclusion.

Cozy fans get two mysteries for the price of one: The intuitive heroine finishes her novel and solves a murder.

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