Murder on the
Orient Espresso--the eighth Maggy Thorsen Coffeehouse
Mystery--is now out in the UK and will be released December 1st in the US.
This installment takes the Wisconsin coffeehouse owner and her sheriff
boyfriend to South Florida to attend a fictional writers’ conference, only to
have the opening night’s reenactment of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the
Orient Express go very wrong.
Publishers Weekly: Balzo’s
exciting eighth mystery featuring Brookhills, Wis., coffeehouse maven Maggy
Thorsen (after 2011’s Triple Shot) takes Maggy and her beau, Sheriff Jake
Pavlik, to South Florida, where they join a group of mystery writers on a train
outing billed as “Murder on the Orient Espresso.” Maggy looks forward to an
easy ride, since her only job is to prepare and serve special coffee to the
writers and their guests while Jake lectures about forensics. Unfortunately, a
series of career crises, stolen manuscripts, and personal antagonisms builds to
a real murder. When the train becomes stranded in the python-infested depths of
the Everglades, with communication cut off and deadly predators both inside and
out, Maggy must keep the passengers calm and the killer from striking again
while Jake sets off to try to find help. It will take more than hot espresso to
save this trip, but readers will be happy to jump on board.
Booklist: The Maggy Thorsen series,
with its coffee-themed titles (Grounds for Murder; Bean There, Done
That; Triple Shot; etc.), reaches book number eight. Maggy, amateur
sleuth and co-owner of a Wisconsin coffee shop, is in Florida attending a
conference for crime writers in the company of her sheriff-boyfriend, Jake,
who’s a speaker at the conference. When a reenactment of Agatha Christie’s Murder
on the Orient Express turns deadly, Maggy is determined to get to the
bottom of things, even if it means putting her own safety at risk. In keeping
with its lighthearted title, the book is an appealing, gentle mystery, a cozy
with a shot of Christie. Needless to say, the book will be a hit with series
fans, but readers of similarly themed novels from writers such as Mary Daheim
(the Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries) or Kerry Greenwood (the Corinna Chapman
series) should also be steered in Maggy’s direction.
Murder on the Orient Espresso, Balzo,
Sandra (Author), Dec 2013. 208 p. Severn, hardcover, $27.95. (9780727883117)
NOTES from Sandy . . .
The book launch for Murder on the Orient
Espresso is Friday the Thirteenth (of December).
We'll be having espresso martinis and handing out info on South Florida's
very REAL mystery-writers conference, Sleuthfest. If you're in the area,
I hope you'll put it on your calendar.
Murder on
the Orient Espresso Book Launch
Friday,
December 13, 7 p.m.
Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore
273 NE
2nd Avenue
Delray
Beach, FL 33444
Phone:
561-279-7790
I have a new website! Check it out: Sandra Balzo
Mysteries: Small Towns, Big Crimes
The first six Maggy Thorsen
Mysteries (Uncommon Grounds through A Cup of
Jo) are now available in audio. Take a listen: Audible Samples
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