Death Through the Looking Glass

A children’s book author with a love of hot-air balloons and a no-nonsense Connecticut state senator may not seem like the types to solve crimes, but there’s something about Lyon and Bea Wentworth that seems to attract mystery. Introduced in A Child’s Garden of Death (1975), the couple’s adventures comprise ten novels, including tense hostage thriller The Death in the Willows (1979) and manor-house mystery The Pied Piper of Death (1997). Intelligent, urbane, and always suspenseful, the Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mysteries make for one of the great husband-and-wife sleuthing series in history.