Hi, I’m Carrie Faraday, and along with my husband Charles, we’ve developed a skill for solving murders. In fact, we’re rather good at it. I’ll start at the beginning, but I can’t talk for too long. I’ve baked some cookies, and they’re cooling in the kitchen. Knowing my husband’s sweet tooth, it won’t be long before he discovers them.
Our crime detection started with a letter. I had dated Charles’s brother Jamie in college, but we went our separate ways after graduation. It was a shock when I received a letter from Jamie stating that if his death was not by natural causes, I should investigate. Murder isn’t natural.
Initially, Charles was a suspect, but then we put our heads together and solved the murder. After the case, we realized we made a good team, and Charles asked me to marry him. But our marriage didn’t end, finding dead bodies.
The police charged me with the murder of the son of one of the wealthiest families in Tr-City, where we live. Our detecting skills kept me from going to prison. Then, we helped my family solve the murder of my brother’s fiancée. One of our more challenging cases was helping our friends Marge and Maddy, who own the local bookstore. Their family owns a lovely hotel in the northern part of our state. This time, the murder involved the possibility of paranormal activity. Was it a ghost or something more human that caused the murder?
While we worked on these crimes, I wrote a mystery book. And that brings me to our latest case. My good friend Joanne Quinn hosted a book signing party to help launch my book. While reading a selection for the audience in her home, I saw a confrontation in the garden between a young woman and someone hidden by the hedge.
The following day, Joanne called to say she found a dead body. She wanted me to see the crime scene before she called the police. Imagine my surprise when I arrived and realized it was the woman I saw in the confrontation.
Joanne begged me to help solve this crime, although the police are never happy when amateurs interfere. She’s worried she would be the prime suspect since she held the party. I agreed to help, especially when I learned the detectives assigned to this case were the same ones who charged me with murder.
Charles and I discovered the victim was a history professor researching family genealogies. Her current project focuses on the three founding families of Tri-City. We don’t know what she found because her research is missing, but we know there’s money involved for the remaining heirs. Money is always a murder motive for murder. Now, we’re following her research. Does this put us in danger?
Now you know about the latest murder we’re trying to solve. Charles and I make a good team for marriage and murder. My thanks to Dru for letting me mention our latest case.
I’ve got to go. I hear Charles in the kitchen, and I must save him from another crime—the crime of eating too many cookies. Aside from pulling Charles from the kitchen, we need to continue gathering more information and interviewing our potential suspects. We need more clues to solve this murder.
Take a Book for Murder, A Faraday Murder Mystery Book 5
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release: September 2024
Format: Print, Digital
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Carrie and Charles Faraday are all smiles at a book party celebrating Carrie’s long-awaited mystery—at least until Carrie witnesses a nasty quarrel between two of the guests. When one of the quarrelers turns up dead the next morning, and the party hostess becomes a suspect, Carrie and Charles feel a responsibility to find the real murderer.
They soon discover that the victim was a professor preparing a family history for a prominent – and wealthy – Tri-City family. This history could have a huge financial impact on the living descendants.
As Carrie—and any mystery writer knows—money is always a motive for murder. And as the Faradays follow the professor’s line of research, they soon realize they could become the next victims on the murderer’s list.
Take a Book for Murder, the fifth installment of the Faraday mystery series has everything you’ve come to expect in a Millie Mack novel — danger, suspense, and a satisfying plot full of unexpected twists.
Meet the author
Millie Mack is the pseudonym for the author of the Faraday Murder Series and has just published the fifth book −Take a Book for Murder. She enjoys everything mysterious, including books, videos, plays, and especially jigsaw puzzles, where the puzzle’s completion reveals the solution to a crime.
Millie Mack was born in Philadelphia, moved to Baltimore, and worked in Washington, all of which influenced the creation of her fictional town of Tri-City, featured in her Faraday books.
She continues to live in the Baltimore area, where she is working on the next book in her series, which features amateur sleuths Carrie and Charles Faraday. Millie also writes a blog all about mysteries at darkandstormynightmysteries.com.