Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during July 2017 is …
Murder at Chateau sur Mer by Alyssa Maxwell, an Emma Cross, Gilded Newport Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Kensington
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, is home to some of America's wealthiest citizens. It's also the beat of society reporter Emma Cross, a less well-heeled cousin to the illustrious Vanderbilts, who occasionally moonlights in solving murders …
Covering a polo match for the Observer, Emma's job is to take note of the real players off the field — Newport's well-bred elite. But the fashionable façade is breached when a woman in gaudy clothing creates a scene demanding to speak to the wife of Senator George Wetmore — until she is escorted off the grounds by the police.
The next morning, police detective Jesse Whyte asks Emma to meet him at the Wetmores' Bellevue Avenue home, Chateau sur Mer, where the senator's wife, Edith, has mysteriously asked to see her. Upon entering the mansion, Emma is confronted with a crime scene — the intruder from the polo match lies dead at the foot of a grand staircase.
To avoid scandal, Edith Wetmore implores Emma to use her reporter skills and her discretion to investigate. When Emma learns the victim was a prostitute — and pregnant — she wonders if the senator was being blackmailed. As Emma peels back layers of deception and family secrets, she may have met her match in a desperate killer who will trample anyone who gets in the way …
— Murder at Chateau sur Mer by Alyssa Maxwell
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for July 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of July 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
