Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 132, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 805 & 806, September/October 2008

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Death’s Half Acre, the 14th book in Margaret Maron’s acclaimed Deborah Knott series, will appear in bookstores around the time this issue mails to subscribers. But while Knott fans have been able to follow her in a new book almost every year for more than a decade, the same is not true for fans of the earlier Maron character Sigrid Harald. The followimg brings Sigrid to life, and centerstage, again.

“...so I ask you again, Miss Harald. Who wanted him dead?”

“And I tell you again, Inspector Giordano. I don’t know. I only met these people last evening.”

The weekend began innocuously enough when Elliott Buntrock, one of New York’s most respected art curators, shifted his chair to get out of the hot Italian sun and said, “It’ll be fun.” Seated in a sidewalk cafe a few quiet streets away from the Ponte Vecchio where tourists swarmed like mindless ants, he offered his companion a crostino thickly smeared with chopped black olives and said, “I’ll rent a car. We could be at the castle forty minutes after we check out of our hotel.”

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