Maia Chance. Berkley Prime Crime, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-27162-9
Set in 1867, Maia’s lively debut, the first in a new cozy series, introduces actresses Ophelia Flax and Prudence Bright. The pair, finding themselves unemployed aboard a ship bound for Europe from New York, use their guile to persuade a fellow...
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Maia Chance. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-06787-6
Chance’s flawless first in a 1920s cozy series introduces New York socialite Lola Woodby, who sheds no tears over the sudden death of her philandering, debt-ridden hubby, Alfie. A shortage of funds forces Lola and her cook, Berta Lundgren, to move...
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Maia Chance. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07221-4
Set in 1923, Chance’s fun sequel to 2015’s Come Hell or Highball takes penniless New York socialite Lola Woodby and her former cook, Berta Lundgren, who have formed the Discreet Retrieval Agency, from the Washington Square apartment left to Lola by...
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Maia Chance. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68331-167-6
This witty series launch from Chance (Teetotaled) introduces 28-year-old graduate student and stress eater Agnes Blythe, of Naneda, N.Y., and her great-aunt Euphemia “Effie” Winters. Effie is back in town after inheriting the crumbling Stagecoach...
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Maia Chance. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-10905-7
The charming third cozy featuring former New York socialite and current PI Lola Woodby (after 2016’s Teetotaled) gets off to a slow start, but Chance strikes the perfect tongue-in-cheek tone for this frolic through Prohibition-era society. Eustace,...
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Maia Chance. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-541-4
Murder once again distracts 28-year-old Agnes Blythe and Effie, her eccentric great-aunt, from their work at the historic Stagecoach Inn in Naneda, N.Y., in Chance’s amusing sequel to 2017’s Bad Housekeeping. When a local mechanic, Mikey Brown, is...
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Maia Chance. Minotaur, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-10907-1
Chance’s light-hearted third Discreet Retrieval Agency mystery (after 2017’s Gin and Panic) takes former socialite-turned-detective Lola Woodby and her partner, cook Berta Lundgren, to Maple Hill, Vt., in the winter of 1923. An anonymous client has...
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Maia Chance et al. Grey Sun (Ingram, dist.), $9.99 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-0-9908157-6-1
Eight short stories by four authors glisten with holiday wonder, each one decorated in hues of legend, myth, SF, and quirky, joyful fun. Both Janine A. Southard’s fantastical “Wild Hunt” and Chance’s folklore-heavy heist in “Odysseus Flax & the...
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