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Death in the Details
Death in the Details: A Novel | Katie Tietjen
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Inspired by the real-life mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee, and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-WWII Vermont, this debut historical mystery will appeal to fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen. Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good startuntil Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed suicide rubs Maple the wrong way, but local authorities brush off her concerns. Determined to help them see whats big in whats small, Maple turns to what she knows best, painstakingly recreating the gruesome scene in miniature: death in a nutshell. With the help of a rookie officer named Kenny, Maple uses her macabre miniature to dig into the dark undercurrents of her sleepy town, where everyone seems to have a secretand a grudge. But when her nosy neighbor goes missing and she herself becomes a suspect, itll be up to Maple to find the devil in the detailsand put him behind bars. Drawing inspiration from true crime and offering readers a smartly plotted puzzle of a mystery, Death in the Details is a stunning series debut.
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After her husband dies, Maple is left penniless so she makes a living by creating intricate dollhouses. When she finds first client dead, she creates a dollhouse to recreate the crime scene. This is an interesting homage to Frances Glessner Lee, the mother of modern forensics because of her detailed “nutshell” dollhouse sized dioramas of unexplained deaths which were used for training homicide investigators and are also considered works of art.