Donald Bain

Jessica Fletcher's mid-summer vacation to New York's famed Hampton beaches turns into a lesson in the art of murder. Indulging in a lifelong passion, she enrolls in an art class, but when the model they had been sketching fails to stir--the victim of a deadly poison--Jessica canvasses the area, chasing down a killer with an artistic flair.

A Novel

A Palette for Murder

Giulia Pianta

Another very cozy mystery.
I like that Jessica took interest in painting and was taking lessons for it. I am not an artist whatsoever so some descriptions of the art bits were boring, but I liked the Long Island setting a lot.

As usual, what I liked the most are Jessica’s moments on her own, when she is setting in in a new place or exploring, when she eats out or just chats to people.
Like many other books, I find it bizarre that the press is just so interested in what she does. I get she is famous, but I don’t see newspapers go crazy for writers, especially for trivial things like starting to paint.

A Palette for Murder A Novel

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