Seaside Book Nook: Murder in the Piazza

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Murder in the Piazza

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Synopsis: Maggie White, a downsized American executive stuck in Rome on her husband’s expat assignment, is finding the dolce vita isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. She’s taken a job offering painting instruction to well-heeled travelers on a luxury tour and her boss—a rather unpleasant English lord—has turned up dead in his penthouse. Maggie’s left with a palazzo full of suspicious guests, a valuable painting her boss might have stolen, and a policeman who’s decided she’s the prime suspect. Now Maggie must keep the tour up and running while she tracks the killer and works to clear her name.

One (or more) Sentence Summary: Murder in the Piazza is a clean "whose done it" book. Several people end up dead and Maggie is caught in the middle of it. Maggie finds herself in a slump having been terminated from her job, kids are older/grown and out of the house, and now an expat living in Italy. When she takes on a job with a tour company her life because crazier than she could imagine. Great read if you like a murder mystery that isn't scary and a good clean story.

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Jen Collins Moore is the author of the Maggie White Mysteries. Her short fiction has appeared in Mystery Weekly, and she is the editor of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest newsletter. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, as well an established marketer and entrepreneur. A transplanted New Englander, she lives in Chicago with her husband and two boys.