Murder without a Duck: A Simpato Mystery, Book 1 (The Simpato Mystery Series, Band 1) - Softcover

Long, Claudia H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960573373 ISBN 13: 9781960573377

Verlag: Sibylline Press, 2024

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In Simpato, California, the wine flows, the gossip spreads, and murder is always just around the corner.

Recently divorced and temporarily suspended from practicing law, Sal DeVine is desperate for a fresh start. She retreats to her late parents’ home in the small Northern California town of Simpato, hoping for a little peace, privacy, and time to figure out what comes next.

But Simpato has other plans.

In a town where everyone knows everyone’s business—and the locals seem to know far more about Sal than she knows about them—keeping a low profile proves impossible. Then a murder occurs just minutes from where Sal is hiking, plunging her into a dangerous web of long-buried secrets, small-town rivalries, and suspicious characters.

As Sal digs deeper, she begins to suspect that the town’s secrets may hold answers to a mystery much closer to home: the unexplained deaths of her parents years earlier.

With wine flowing, gossip flying, ducks roaming, and nuns selling cannabis cookies, Simpato is anything but ordinary. Sal will need all her legal instincts, determination, and wit to uncover the truth—before she becomes the next victim.

Welcome to Simpato, where murder is serious business, but almost nothing else is.

Murder Without a Duck is the first installment in Claudia H. Long’s Simpato Mystery Series, a delightful blend of small-town intrigue, eccentric characters, family secrets, and plenty of terrible duck puns.

About the Author: Claudia H. Long is the author of seven novels, including the deeply emotional mystery series featuring Zara and Lilly: Nine Tenths of the Law and Our Lying Kin. Her books span centuries and topics, including the poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Josefina's Sin), the Hidden Jews of Mexico during the Inquisition (The Duel for Consuelo), women in the mining industry in 1753 (Chains of Silver), women in the labor movement in 1920s San Francisco (The Harlot's Pen), and the legacy of inherited trauma as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her humorous mysteries are “sisters-books, family scandals with a mystery flowing through them.”

Editorial Reviews

“A good old-fashioned mystery with just the right amount of wit, humor and long-held secrets. I loved it !” —Denise Allan Steele, author of Rewind

“For a small town, Simpato has some giant secrets. And it’s all duck or no dinner for Sal DeVine if she can’t discover the secrets that got her mother killed. A tongue-in-cheek murder mystery with a hilariously irreverent cast of characters.” —Kelly Oliver, author of The Jessica James Mysteries

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Claudia Hagadus Long is the author of 8 novels, including the Simpato Mystery Series and the Zara and Lilly series, one of which has been optioned for a major feature film. When she's not writing stories, she's a lawyer in Northern California, where she lives amid wineries and geysers, with her husband and too many animals. She's a passionate weaver and spinner, a dedicated cook, and the doting grandmother of three perfect grandsons. She relies heavily on coffee. www.claudiahlong.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sibylline Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1960573373
• ISBN 13: 9781960573377
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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