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DEAD AND GONDOLA & LAST WORD TO THE WISE
by Ann Claire

DEAD AND GONDOLA & LAST WORD TO THE WISE by Ann Claire

We licensed both books in Japanese (Sogensha) and the UK (Headline), and LAST WORD TO THE WISE was also licensed in Vietnamese (Vietnam AZ).

Grab a warm drink, bundle up in your coziest sweater, and sink into an armchair by a crackling fireplace to read this charming mystery!

We’re thrilled to share with you DEAD AND GONDOLA by Ann Claire, the first book in the Christie Bookshop Mystery series, set in a snowy Colorado small town at a charming family bookstore nestled in the mountains (reachable only by gondola!).

Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie run The Book Chalet in Last Word, Colorado, and when a snowstorm hits, it seems at first to be the perfect cozy reading weather—until a man is found dead on the gondola, a rare Agatha Christie edition goes missing, and the sisters quickly realize that all may not be as it seems in their small town! Ellie and Christie use what they’ve learned as lifelong mystery readers and throw themselves into a whodunit with an eclectic cast of suspects. This is the first in a series for mystery lovers everywhere (who may catch the many Agatha Christie references and fun facts sprinkled along the way).

Ann Claire is a member of Sisters in Crime. She earned graduate degrees in geography, which took her all across the world. Now she lives with her geographer husband in Colorado, where the mountains beckon from their kitchen windows. When she’s not writing, you can find her hiking, baking, herding housecats, and enjoying a good mystery, especially an Agatha Christie.

LAST WORD TO THE WISE

Book 2 in the Christie Bookshop Mystery series

Bantam | Trade Paperback Original | October 3, 2023

Rights sold: UK/BC: Headline

In this second installment in the supremely cozy bookshop mystery series set in a snowy Colorado small town, the Christie sisters and their cat Agatha find themselves in hot water when a double date, set up by a bookish matchmaking service, leads to one of their suitors dead the next morning.