March Mystery Releases Hit Shelves
March brings fresh mystery novels including *Murder in an Irish Garden* by Carlene O'Connor, *Dead Heat* by Sabine Durrant, and *The Star from Calcutta* by Sujata Massey. O'Connor's latest delivers a classic whodunit in lush Irish scenery, while Durrant offers psychological thriller elements and Massey weaves crime with Indian culture.
*Murder in an Irish Garden* is the latest installment in Carlene O'Connor's long-running "Irish Village Mystery" series, which began in 2016 with *Murder in an Irish Village*. The series, which follows the sleuthing adventures of Siobhán O'Sullivan in County Cork, has been optioned for television. O'Connor is a *USA Today* bestselling author who also writes the "Home to Ireland" and "County Kerry" mystery series. *Dead Heat* is the seventh dark psychological suspense novel from former journalist Sabine Durrant. Durrant, a one-time assistant editor at *The Guardian* and literary editor for *The Sunday Times*, has seen her previous thriller, *Sun Damage*, enter into a fierce bidding war among television and film companies, with Bad Wolf and Disney now producing it. *The Star from Calcutta* marks the fifth book in Sujata Massey's award-winning "Perveen Mistry" series. The main character, Perveen Mistry, is inspired by India's first two female lawyers, Cornelia Sorabji and Mithan Jamshed Lam. The first book in the series, *The Widows of Malabar Hill*, was optioned for a television series by Village Roadshow Entertainment Group in 2020. The latest Perveen Mistry novel plunges the 1920s Bombay solicitor into the world of silent film. The plot involves a murdered film censor and a missing leading lady, weaving a tale of blackmail and deceit in the early days of Bollywood.
