I’m excited to share with you the cover reveal for the next book in the “Ella Shane” mystery series, coming March 2022 and is up for preorder.

Book Synopsis
The adventures of swashbuckling opera singer Ella Shane continue!

In February, 1900, the mother and aunts of trouser diva Ella Shane’s beau appear at her home to demand that she marry him. . . and soon afterward find a body in their hotel bathtub. Ella, her cousin Tommy Hurley, and the police are on the scene when the beau himself, Gilbert Saint Aubyn, Duke of Leith, arrives. That night, Gil proposes and Ella accepts, pending settlement of a marriage contract that allows her to keep singing. But there’s little time for romance, since the cast now has to find the killer of the man in the tub, who was the predatory son of the hotel owners. More, someone’s trying to kill Gil, and possibly Tommy’s good friend Cabot Bridgewater too. After the wedding of two dear friends, Ella’s reporter pal Hetty MacNaughten, who was working undercover as a maid at the hotel, confesses to the killing, claiming self-defense. Everyone thinks she’s lying, but they can’t shake her story.

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Publication Date: March 29, 2022
Publisher: Kensington Books
Format: Print, Digital
Name of Series: Ella Shane Mystery
Number in Series: #3
Genre: Historical
Author Website: kathleenmarplekalb.com

About the author
Kathleen Marple Kalb is the author of the historical Ella Shane Mystery series set in Gilded Age New York, which includes A Fatal Finale and A Fatal First Night. She’s also a weekend morning anchor at New York’s 1010 WINS Radio, capping a career she began as a teenage DJ in rural Western Pennsylvania. Kalb is a member of the Sisters in Crime New York Chapter and the Author’s Guild and is active in media organizations as well. She lives in Cheshire, Connecticut with her family and is at work on her next book.

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