DEATH IN THE ORCHARD
A Trudy Genova Mystery #3
by Marni Graff
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Pub Date 18 May 2024 | Archive Date 1 Jul 2024
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Description
The third Trudy Genova mystery from award-winning author M. K. Graff brings Trudy home, leaving her New York City studio consulting job to visit her rural hometown of Schoharie three hours north. NYPD detective Ned O'Malley accompanies Trudy, primed to meet her family, but with a secret mission to find out what really happened when her father died eleven years ago.
Mario Genova's death was deemed a tragic accident, but Trudy feels there was more to her beloved father acting out of character the day before he died.
After years of hard work building a successful apple orchard business, Marion cleaned out their bank accounts. No reason—and no money—was ever found. As Trudy and Ned try to investigate without informing her family of their actions, a new death occurs on Genova Orchards property, and once again Trudy's family is under scrutiny.
Advance Praise
""A welcome and forceful return of MK Graff's Trudy Genova, DEATH IN THE ORCHARD is a well-crafted and thought-provoking story of unexplained death and cold-blooded murder, as Trudy sets out to solve the death of her father with her NYPD boyfriend Ned O'Malley. The couple return to the Genova family orchards to dig into the past as the present threatens to shake the family to their very core. Graff deals us a cold case of family intrigue, a small-town conspiracy, and a terrifying leap into the unknown, as her heroine comes face to face with a secrets she thought would never be told, a case impossible to solve, and a dogged determination to finally get to the truth. A MASTERCLASS IN LAYING THE THREADS BARE AND KNITTING THEM TOGETHER IN A SATISFYING CONCLUSION."" Mandy Morton, Author of the The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency series
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781732163089 |
| PRICE | US$6.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Annie B, Reviewer
Death in the Orchard is the third Trudy Genova cozy mystery by M.K. Graff. Released 18th May 2024, it's a substantial 412 pages and is available (according to the author's bio information) in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format provided for review has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.
This is a continuing series featuring an amateur sleuth who's anRN. Generally based in New York city, this time it's set in the Catskills, where Trudy and her detective boyfriend are investigating the cold case murder of her father many years previously. A second, current, murder seems to be tied to the events of the past.
The language is moderately clean (the secondary characters include Trudy's extended Italian American New York family, so there -are- a couple "f-bombs") and it's a cozy, so the violence is mostly off-page and not graphic.
Despite being the third book in the series, it works well enough as a standalone. There are a myriad of characters, but the author/publisher have provided a dramatis personae at the beginning, so it's easy enough to flip back and forth a bit to keep them straight.
The plot is well engineered and the mystery is mostly "fair play" with followable clues scattered throughout. The author excels at descriptive prose, and the settings are well rendered and believable. There are some slight issues with continuity, and the book would've undoubtedly benefited from a moderately ruthless editing process, but it's definitely readable and entertaining.
Four stars. It's unclear from the publishers website info if it's still available (or how to acquire) the audiobook and ebook formats, but the paperback is still available.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
