Dru’s Short Musing:
When a tour participant asks for her help, little did Capri know that she opened a can or long buried worms.
A murdered aunt and a missing mom propelled this complex drama that had me immediately immersed in what was happening. The author did an awesome job in presenting and staging this tightly woven mystery with a multi-plot storyline, a small suspect pool, but it is what Capri unearthed in her pursuit that sets everything in motion. With visually descriptive narrative, the summer of love comes alive in the telling of this where it’s the actions of the characters and what is spoken that centers the drama until all the pieces fall into place and Capri deals with the murderer. This is by far the best book in the series, and I can’t wait to see where we go next with Capri and her friends and family.
Series: A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery, Book 3
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuths
Release: September 22, 2026
Format: Print, Digital, Audio
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Book Synopsis:
Beloved true crime tour guide Capri Sanzio returns in Michelle Chouinard’s A Map to Murder, the next book in the USA Today bestselling Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mysteries.
True crime tour guide and serial killer aficionado Capri Sanzio knows how central the Summer of Love is to San Francisco’s identity―even if she’s always had conflicted feelings about it. She’s used to weaving feel-good hippie culture and music into her Haight-Ashbury true crime tales, centering her tours around what happens when a revolution looking to lift up the best ideals humanity has to offer clashes with the darkest souls hidden among humanity’s shadows. But what she’s not used to is a guest stepping out from those shadows to drop a murder investigation directly into her lap.
A woman has gone missing in San Francisco after trying to solve her aunt’s murder: a cold case from the Summer of Love. Capri sees herself in the missing woman―both were unable to find the answers they desperately wanted as kids―and sees her own daughter in the tour guest begging for her help. Unable to turn the case away, Capri finds herself following a trail of flower-power footprints turned deadly―straight to a killer who has her in their sights.
FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.