Waiting on Wednesday: Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce

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Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce. 368 p. Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery #3. Algonquin Young Readers/ Workman, October 5, 2021. 9781616209209.

Happy Wednesday! One more Wednesday after today! Waiting on Wednesday features Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce. I gave a hint to this post when I recommended Premeditated Myrtle on Monday. Here's the publisher synopsis:

Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective—is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre murders in her hometown of Swinburne.

When the proprietor of Leighton’s Mercantile is found dead on the morning his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, it’s clear a killer had revenge in mind. But who would want to kill the local dry-goods merchant? Perhaps someone who remembers the mysterious scandal that destroyed his career as a professor and archaeologist. When the killer strikes again, each time manipulating the figures in the display to foretell the crime, Myrtle finds herself racing to uncover the long-buried facts of a cold case—and the motivations of a modern murderer.

Cold-Blooded Myrtle releases on October 5. Be sure to check out the first two books in the series before then. The books do not need to be read in order, but Myrtle is such a firecracker, you won't want to miss any. Happy reading!