Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during September 2017 is …
Death at the Seaside by Frances Brody, a Kate Shackleton Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break …
Heading off for a long-overdue holiday to Whitby, she visits her school friend Alma who works as a fortune teller there. Kate had been looking forward to a relaxing seaside sojourn, but upon arrival discovers that Alma's daughter Felicity has disappeared, leaving her mother a note and the pawn ticket for their only asset: a watch-guard.
What makes this more intriguing is the jeweler who advanced Felicity the thirty shillings is Jack Phillips, Alma's current gentleman friend.
Kate can't help but become involved, and goes to the jeweller's shop to get some answers. When she makes a horrifying discovery in the back room, it becomes clear that her services are needed. Met by a wall of silence by town officials, keen to maintain Whitby's idyllic façade, it's up to Kate — ably assisted by Jim Sykes and Mrs Sugden — to discover the truth behind Felicity's disappearance.
And they say nothing happens in August …
— Death at the Seaside by Frances Brody
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for September 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of September 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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