She retired from accounting. She did not retire from noticing things.
Maggie Crow is sixty-seven years old, freshly retired after thirty-five years as a Boston accountant, and absolutely certain she knows what her life looks like now: quiet, orderly, and free of other people’s problems.
Then her grandmother’s will arrives. A small blue house on the St. Lawrence River. A stubborn long-haired dachshund named Merlin who has opinions about everything. And a tarot deck hidden in the bottom drawer of an old desk.
In the charming river village of Luce Harbor, Quebec, a retired accountant with a tarot deck turns out to be irresistible to the locals. Her very first client — a charming restaurateur with secrets behind his smile — turns up dead at the base of the municipal wharf two days later. The police call it an accident.
Maggie calls it a pattern she recognizes.
She wasn’t supposed to get involved. She got involved.
Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton, and Alexander McCall Smith.
Death by the River is the first book in the Maggie Crow Mystery series — a warm, witty cozy mystery set in a fictional Quebec river village where everyone has a history, the coffee is always fresh, and the dachshund occasionally finds the evidence.
Each book in the series can be enjoyed as a standalone mystery.
