The Next Deadly Chapter — V.M. Burns

Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington is engaged to be married -- but she may have to step over a few bodies before she walks down the aisle . . .

All Sam wanted was to make a good impression on her fiancé Frank's mother, the very proper Dr. Camilia Patterson. But when Nano Jo and the lively ladies of Shady Acres Retirement Village throw a surprise bridal shower for Sam at the Four Feathers Casino -- watch out! Things spin out of control faster than a roulette wheel. Fortunately, Sam knows when to fold 'em and slips back to her room to work on her latest historical mystery set between the wars, in which a houseguest meets a grim end at an English country manor.
 
The morning after brings another rude surprise. Sam gets a frantic call from Camilia, who's discovered a dead body in her room. Now winning over her soon-to-be mother-in-law means keeping the good doctor out of a potential scandal and attempting to discreetly solve a murder without ruffling any feathers. For that she'll need the help of Nano Jo -- not exactly the soul of discretion -- Detective “Stinky” Pitt, and the ladies -- because the casino killer keeps upping the ante. . .
 
Praise for Murder on Tour

“This novel, like Burns's others, wipes the mind clean of anything but pure enjoyment.”  -- New York Times Book Review