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The Great Houses of Pill Hill.
In this debut novel from Diane Josefowicz, Hannah Cookie Cooke is an interior decorator with a sideline making miniature reproductions of crime scenes. When her client, Chuck, is murdered at his housewarming party, the detective on the case is sure the key to the baffling murder is hiding in one of Cookies miniatures.
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- ISBN: 9781641298087
- Physical Description: 333 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Soho Press, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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A scintillating, wickedly intricate locked-room mystery following an unconventional woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes and finds herself entangled in a real one when the client of her dream job turns up dead.
Hannah âCookieâ Cooke, an interior decorator with a sideline making miniature reproductions of crime scenes, lands her dream job when New Prestonâs wealthiest couple hires her to renovate their historic New England home. But things go spectacularly wrong when her client, Chuck, is murdered at the housewarming party.
The detective on the case is sure the key to the baffling murder is hiding in one of Cookieâs miniatures. Complicating matters further, Cookieâs mother, a retired archaeologist living in a local rehabilitation and nursing facility, knows more than sheâs willing or able to admit about the house and its historyâin particular, why thereâs a hidden room decorated in 19th-century Egyptian kitsch on the premises, and what it might mean for the current owners.
This character-driven contemporary take on classic noir spins themes of possession, consumption, and development into a twisty, one-of-a-kind mystery.
