Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during May 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is Death of a Mad Hatter by Jenn McKinlay.
For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for May 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during May 2014.
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Death of a Mad Hatter
Jenn McKinlay
Series: A Scarlett Parker, Hat Shop Mystery
One in a milliner …
Scarlett Parker and her British cousin, Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim's Whims — their ladies' hat shop on London's chic Portobello Road — to create hats for an Alice in Wonderland themed afternoon tea, a fund-raiser for a local children's hospital. It seems like a wonderfully whimsical way to pass the hat, and Scarlett and Viv are delighted to outfit the Grisby family, the hosts who are hoping to raise enough money to name a new hospital wing after their patriarch.
Unfortunately, the Grisby heir will not live to see it — he's been poisoned. When traces of the poison are found on the hat Scarlett and Viv made for him, the police become curiouser and curiouser about their involvement. Now the ladies need to don their thinking caps and find the tea party crasher who's mad enough to kill at the drop of a hat …
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