The Devil’s Own Game: A Somebody’s Bound to Wind Up Dead Mystery

Hogsett’s amusing third outing for former part-time librarian Allie Harper and Tom Bennington III, a blind professor who won a $550-million lottery jackpot (after 2018’s Murder to the Metal), gets off to a rousing start. Another blind man, Kit Wade, has a verbal altercation with Tom after leaving the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he attended the Touch Tour. After the two men part, Wade is shot dead in the street. When evidence suggests that Tom was the intended victim, the couple reactivate T&A Detective Agency, their dormant firm whose name alone never fails to bring snickers. Their approach to sleuthing is more slapdash than traditional—it’s joked that they should be called “the loose cannon vigilantes.” But Tom’s enhanced senses, honed since becoming blind, come in handy. The appealing Allie and Tom are determined to be responsible wealthy people, giving away more money than they spend. But money also requires the couple boost their security. Readers will agree that Allie and Tom are a lot of fun to be around. Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg Literary. (Oct.)