Scent to Kill: A Natural Remedies Mystery

In Fiedler’s well-crafted second mystery, set on Long Island’s North Fork (after 2012’s Death Drops), a film crew plans to shoot a segment for a TV show about psychics at producer Roger Bixby’s Southport mansion, reputed to be haunted by a 1933 murder victim. When Bixby drowns one night, a victim of foul play, naturopathic doctor Willow McQuade, the owner of Nature’s Way Market and Café in nearby Greenport, rushes to the defense of the chief suspect—her former boyfriend, Simon Lewis, who quarreled with Bixby earlier in the day. Two almost identical murders decades apart spur Willow to unravel the complex relationships between Bixby and his film crew, as well as between his forebears and the townspeople, to discover who might have wished the producer dead. Devotees of natural medicine and aromatherapy will enjoy the tips that appear at the beginning of each chapter and scattered throughout the text. Agent: Anne Collette, Helen Rees Literary Agency. (Mar.)