9/16/24

Book of the Week (9/16/2024)

Death in Disguise: A Rev & Rye Mystery by Maren Tirabassi & Maria Mankin (Brain Mill Press, 2024)

The Reverend Wanda and her best friend Rye are back, shocked at the layers of secrets that the latest murder uncovers and how all those secrets seem to trace back to Rye . . .

A multifaith Mardi Gras celebration sounds like the perfect way to ease into Lent, with enough music, King cake, and socializing to distract Reverend Wanda Duff from the cold, dreary New England weather-until she and her friend Rye stumble on a body.

Someone has murdered Martina Suarez in the basement of Saint Athanasius, and it quickly becomes clear that the question isn't so much who would want to kill the church custodian as who wouldn't. But the more Wanda and Rye learn about Martina and the secrets she kept, the harder it gets for them to ignore the case's connections to the past and to the shadows haunting their own lives.

Soon, Wanda finds herself struggling with love and loss on more than one front, while Rye pieces together the heartbreaking bedtime story her father's never been willing to tell her: the truth of why her mother disappeared.

Delivered with humor, emotion, and a twist around every corner, Death in Disguise is another delightful and inclusive cozy mystery for readers to devour. --Publisher's blurb

Maren C. Tirabassi is a United Church of Christ pastor who serves churches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She is the author of 21 books and a former poet laureate of Portsmouth, NH.

Join Maren at Gibson's Bookstore on Thursday, September 26th, 2024 at 6:30 pm as she presents her newest cozy mystery!

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