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Honor Hartman : Emma Diamond mysteries

 

honor hartman : bridge club mysteries / emma diamond series

 

Honor Hartman : On the Slam

ON THE SLAM
Bridge Club Mystery Book 1
Publisher : NYLA
May 9, 2017

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about murder, rivalries and laying all your cards on the table…

Bridge tips included!

Meet Emma Diamond: greenhorn bridge player, recent widow, and the kind of person who always returns her library books on time.

Emma’s just returned home to Houston to live next-door to Sophie, her best friend of 30 years. Sophie is delighted to share the joys of a good bridge game with Emma and her new neighbors; but their very first game doesn’t go as planned…with one of the players found murdered.

The victim, a notorious spoil-sport, was reviled by the entire neighborhood, which leaves a stacked deck of suspects for the police to investigate. But Emma and Sophie have their own suspicions, suspicions that the police aren’t prioritizing…

If Emma and Sophie don’t find the real killer, they might be playing their last hand!!!

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Honor Hartman : THE UNKINDEST CUT

THE UNKINDEST CUT
Bridge Club Mystery Book 2
Publisher : NYLA
June 3, 2008

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about murder, rivalries and playing the right hand…

Bridge tips included!

Young widow, Emma Diamond has been learning bridge to refocus her grief. So when best friends and bridge partners Sophie and Marylou decide to attend a relaxing bridge retreat in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, Emma can’t possibly say no.

But once Emma and her friends arrive, they soon realize that this retreat will be anything but relaxing! The two bridge instructors are bitter rivals – each trying to recruit the players into their own personal camps…

When one of the bridge instructors turns up dead and clutching the queen of diamonds in his hand, all heads turn to Emma. She knows she’s innocent – after all, Diamond is her last name! – but fears the murderer may be sending her a message.

Now Emma and her friends must solve the mystery and discover who the killer is before he strikes again…or they could be next!

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