Nurse Trudy Genova mixes her movie studio consulting work with her nose for murder!
Death in the Orchard
The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries Book 3
by M.K. Graff
Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural, Amateur Sleuth
The third Trudy Genova mystery from award-winning author M. K. Graff brings Trudy home, leaving her New York City studio consulting job to visit her rural hometown of Schoharie, three hours north. NYPD detective Ned O’Malley accompanies Trudy, primed to meet her family, but with a secret mission to find out what really happened when her father died eleven years ago.
Mario Genova’s death was deemed a tragic accident, but Trudy feels there was more to her beloved father acting out of character the day before he died. After years of hard work building a successful apple orchard business with her mother, Mario cleaned out their bank accounts. No reason-and no money-was ever found. As Trudy and Ned try to investigate without informing her family of their actions, a new death occurs on Genova Orchards property, and once again Trudy’s family is under scrutiny.
“A welcome and forceful return of MK Graff’s Trudy Genova, Death in the Orchard is a well- crafted and thought-provoking story of unexplained death and cold-blooded murder, as Trudy sets out to solve the death of her father with her NYPD boyfriend Ned O’Malley. The couple return to the Genova family orchards to dig into the past as the present threatens to shake the family to their very core.
Graff deals us a cold case of family intrigue, a small-town conspiracy, and a terrifying leap into the unknown, as her heroine comes face to face with a secret she thought would never be told, a case impossible to solve, and a dogged determination to finally get to the truth.
A masterclass in laying the threads bare and knitting them together in a satisfying conclusion.”
Mandy Morton, Author of The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency series
Amazon * BridlePathPress * Goodreads
Death at the Dakota
The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries 2
Nurse Trudy Genova is making plans to take her relationship with NYPD detective Ned O’Malley to the next level when she lands a gig as medical consultant on a film shoot at the famed Dakota apartment building in Manhattan, which John Lennon once called home. Then star Monica Kiley goes missing, a cast member turns up dead, and it appears Trudy might be next. Meanwhile Ned tackles a mysterious murder case in which the victim is burned beyond recognition. When his investigations lead him back to the Dakota, Trudy finds herself wondering: how can she fall in love if she can’t even survive?
Readers of Death Unscripted, the first book in the Trudy Genova Manhattan Mystery series, will find the same pleasures in this sequel: fast pacing, engaging characters, twists and turns on the way to a satisfying close. Once again M.K. Graff reveals her talents in crafting this delightful mix of amateur sleuth and police procedural.
Part procedural, part cozy, Death at the Dakota is a well-crafted and highly entertaining mystery.- Bruce Robert Coffin, #1 bestselling author of the Detective Byron mysteries.
I fell in love — not only with co-protagonists, Trudy and Ned, the richly detailed and historic setting of The Dakota, and the unique cast of characters, but with the unusual plot of Death at the Dakota. Sherry Harris, Agatha Award nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mysteries
Amazon * BridlePathPress * Bookbub * Goodreads
Death Unscripted
The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries Book 1
Trudy Genova has the best job any nurse could want, working on set as a medical consultant for a NY movie studio. No more uniforms, bedpans or emergencies, until at the actor whose overtures she’s refused dies suddenly while taping a hospital scene–but not before pointing his finger accusingly at Trudy. When detectives view Trudy as a suspect, she sets out on an investigation to clear her name. Then a second death occurs, and Trudy realizes she’s put herself in jeopardy.
A new mystery from the award-winning author of the Nora Tierney English Mystery Series, DEATH UNSCRIPTED is based on the authors’ real work experience during her nursing career and is the mystery series British Queen of Crime P. D. James insisted she write. A mix of amateur sleuth and police procedural, the story is told in first person from Trudy’s point of view, and in third from NYPD Detective Ned O’Malley
Marilyn Chris, Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning actor who played Wanda Wolek on ABC’s soap “One Life to Live” notes: “Graff gets behind the scenes of soaps just right, as well she should–she was there!”
Edith Maxell, national bestselling author of multiple mystery series says: “Your blood pressure will soar during M. K. Graff’s new Manhattan Mystery, as nurse Trudy Genova takes the pulse of a killer during a soap opera filming in Death Unscripted. You won’t even think about changing the channel during this smart, suspenseful mystery.”
And Triss Stein, author of the Erica Donato Mysteries, has this to say: “Soap opera drama is as intense on the set as it is on the screen. Sometimes Trudy Genova, consulting nurse, feels like the only sane person in the room. Join her as she copes with huge ego, daily melodrama, an attractive detective, and life in New York . . . plus murder. The city and the studio provide intriguing backgrounds for this entertaining mystery.”
Helen Smith, UK author of the The Emily Castle Mysteries, agrees that Death Unscripted is “an engaging story featuring a charming amateur sleuth. A great start to a mystery series.”
Amazon * BridlePathPress * Bookbub * Goodreads
Marni Graff is the award-winning author of The Nora Tierney English Mysteries and The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries. Her stories are in several anthologies, including the Anthony Award-winning Malice Domestic’s Murder Most Edible. She is Managing Editor of Bridle Path Press, a crime book reviewer, and blogs for Miss Demeanors. Graff is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mavens of Mayhem SinC, Triangle SinC, Mystery People UK, and the International Association of Crime Writers. She lives in eastern NC with her husband and two Aussiedoodles.
M.K. Graff is a new author to me, but I want to thank this blog for the introduction.
So many books on Goodreads. I will be reading some of them over the summer. I look forward to reading this book.
Sounds like a good mystery series. Thanks for sharing.