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October Reads Worth Falling For Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A Grave Deception, December 2025
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A Grave Deception, December 2025
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A Collection of Lies, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Mistletoe and Murder, October 2023
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A Legacy of Murder, March 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
A Dream of Death, September 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Shadow of Memory, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Art of Betrayal, June 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
A Legacy of Murder, October 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
A Dream of Death, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book

A LEGACY OF MURDER
By: Connie Berry

Kate Hamilton #2
Crooked Lane Books
October 2019
On Sale: October 8, 2019
ISBN: 1643851543
EAN: 9781643851549
Kindle: B07NKQDYM3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (reprint - March 2023)

Mystery Amateur Sleuth

American antique dealer Kate Hamilton's Christmastime jaunt to a charming English village leads to an investigation of a missing ruby...and a chain of murders.

It's Christmastime and antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is off to visit her daughter, Christine, in the quaint English village of Long Barston. Christine and her boyfriend, Tristan, work at stately-but-crumbling Finchley Hall. Touring the Elizabethan house and grounds, Kate is intrigued by the docent's tales of the Finchley Hoard, and the strange deaths surrounding the renowned treasure trove. But next to a small lake, Kate spies the body of a young woman, killed by a garden spade.

Nearly blind Lady Barbara, who lives at Finchley with her loyal butler, Mugg, persuades Kate to take over the murdered woman's work. Kate finds that a Burmese ruby has vanished from the legendary Blood-Red Ring, replaced by a lesser garnet. Were the theft and the woman's death connected?

Kate learns that Lady Barbara's son fled to Venezuela years before, suspected of murdering another young woman. The murder weapon belonged to an old gardener, who becomes the leading suspect. But is Lady Barbara's son back to kill again? When another body is found, the clues point toward Christine. It's up to Kate to clear her daughter's name in Connie Berry's second Kate Hamilton mystery, a treasure for fans of traditional British mysteries.