Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during October 2014 is …
Death of a Blue Blood by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, a Murder, She Wrote Mystery (42nd in series)
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for October 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
More about our featured title, below …
Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to attend a New Year's Eve Ball at Castorbrook Castle, thanks to her British publisher. Shortly after arriving in the idyllic English countryside, Jessica discovers the body of a lady's maid in the garden.
While their host, Lord Norrance, his snobbish third wife, other members of the household, and party guests squabble over the tragic death in tight-lipped, perfectly mannered, thoroughly British style, family relations are strained as old wounds are reopened and cutting remarks are freely handed out. And that's only during teatime!
As midnight beckons at the ball the next night, the earl offers a toast, complete with fireworks. But the merriment crashes to a halt when he falls ill and dies, apparently poisoned — and the number of suspects with a grudge against the lord of the manor sprouts like English ivy.
Now it's up to Jessica and George to find the killer — or killers — before another corpse welcomes in the New Year …
— Death of a Blue Blood by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
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