{"id":23577,"date":"2015-04-16T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23577"},"modified":"2015-04-13T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:54:44","slug":"mystery-series-debut-toured-to-death-by-hy-conrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/mystery-series-debut-toured-to-death-by-hy-conrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Series Debut! Toured to Death by Hy Conrad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Toured to Death<\/a><\/strong>,<\/i> mystery writer Hy Conrad<\/a> launches the exploits of Amy and Fanny Abel, a mother-and-daughter team of New York City travel agents unexpectedly turned sleuths. \u00a0Join this promising start to the Amy\u2019s Travel Mystery series on the Monte Carlo to Rome Mystery Road Rally, the first European tour offered by our heroines\u2019 fledgling niche-travel business.<\/p>\n

With her mother Fanny\u2019s support from across the Atlantic, Amy leads a group of twenty-four tourists through stylish French and Italian destinations as they hunt for clues to solve a fictional murder mystery. \u00a0Amy\u2019s ambitious idea to combine a game of Clue with an Amazing Race<\/i><\/a>-like competition unfolds smoothly…until actual murders begin to take place! \u00a0When one of of the tourists and the man hired to write the plot line for the mystery excursion are found dead, Amy and Fanny must put their heads together to keep the killer from striking again. \u00a0They soon learn that the writer\u2019s story was based on a real-life murder case involving two of their current tour customers. \u00a0Working in tandem to solve the crimes, mother and daughter begin to overcome the\u00a0loss of their partners, strengthen their relationship, save their agency\u2019s reputation, and prepare\u00a0for their next adventure!<\/p>\n

If, like author Hy Conrad<\/a>, you enjoy both mysteries and travel writing,\u00a0pack your bags (including a magnifying glass) for Toured to Death<\/i><\/a><\/strong> and the Amy\u2019s Travel Mystery series. Readers of \u201ccozy\u201d mysteries will be interested in this book\u2019s unique take on the genre, and fans of TV\u2019s Monk<\/i><\/a><\/strong> can compare how Conrad (a writer and producer for the series, as well as the author of novels based upon it<\/a>) develops his detectives and other key characters for different formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Toured to Death, mystery writer Hy Conrad launches the exploits of Amy and Fanny Abel, a mother-and-daughter team of New York City travel agents unexpectedly turned sleuths. \u00a0Join this promising start to the Amy\u2019s Travel Mystery series on the Monte Carlo to Rome Mystery Road Rally, the first European[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[2899,2901,2902,2898,122,2900],"class_list":["post-23577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-cozy-mysteries","tag-hy-conrad","tag-monk","tag-mystery-fiction","tag-travel","tag-women-detectives"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-68h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23577"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions\/23697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}