New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2024) dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to the mystery, this novel by Bowen and her daughter Clare Broyles (their third collaboration on the Molly Murphy mysteries) contains fascinating historical detail on the very beginning of the Catskills resorsts. "A 1908 visit to the Catskills is spoiled by murder. Because New York City is suffering an outbreak of typhoid, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan encourages his pregnant wife, Molly, to remove their household to his mothers home in Westchester. Family ties also take Mollys best friends, free-spirted feminists Sid and Gus, to the Catskills when a letter arrives asking Sid to come see her elderly Bubbe and Zayde. Her grandparents, who disapprove of her lifestyle, live quietly on a farm that theyre laboriously converting to a bungalow colony for Jews who are unwelcome elsewhere. Molly, whos bored at her mother-in-laws, visits her friends, who are staying at an artists retreat near Sids relatives." (kirkus) 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1250890788.