Minotaur, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-89081-8 Mother-daughter duo Bowen and Broyles (In Sunshine or in Shadow) deliver a subpar entry in Bowen’s long-running series featuring PI Molly Murphy.

Minotaur, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-89078-8 The mother-daughter team of Bowen and Broyles paint by numbers in their ho-hum third Molly Murphy historical mystery (after All That Is Hidden ).

Rhys Bowen, author of the Molly Murphy Series, will be interviewing Louise Penny, author of the Chief Inspector Gamache Series, about the practice of writing.