Murder on the Sea Otter Express: A Grace "the Hit Mom" Mystery
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Murder on the Sea Otter Express: A Grace "the Hit Mom" Mystery
By (Author) Nikki Knight
Turner Publishing Company
Turner Publishing Company
20th May 2026
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Physical Properties
Paperback
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
In the third installment of the Grace "the Hit Mom" Mysteries, a field trip to the New Haven Aquarium ends in disaster when a creepy chaperone falls to his death in the beluga whale tank...when Grace was the one who was supposed to kill him.
Per usual, Grace Adair is juggling it all-being a full-time mom, part-time lawyer, freelance editor, divinely-contracted assassin-and now, school chaperone.
Her son's field trip to the local aquarium takes a dive when Eric Egan, a district curriculum administrator, is unceremoniously thrown off the aquarium's Sea Otter Express into the beluga whale tank. Nobody's especially upset to see the creep's body sleeping with the fishes, but Grace is in trouble because Egan was supposed to be her next hit-and she sure wouldn't have killed him in front of a bunch of first graders.
Now, Grace will have to solve the murder, settle decades-old grudges, and keep her own secrets-all while taking care of her family...and serving as flower girl at her handler Madge's wedding. As the tasks pile up, Grace isn't sure if she'll live to see it all done.
Don't miss out on books 1 and 2 in the series: Wrong Poison and Hound of the Bonnevilles!
Author Bio
Nikki Knight is an Author/Anchor/Momnot in that order. An award-winning weekend anchor at New York Citys 1010 WINS Radio, she writes short stories and novels, including the Grace "the Hit Mom" Mysteries and the Vermont Radio Mystery series. Her stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine, Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, online, and in anthologies, and been short-listed for Derringer and Black Orchid Novella Awards. As Kathleen Marple Kalb, she writes the Ella Shane and Old Stuff mysteries for Level Best Books. Shes a Co-VP of the New York/Tri-State Sisters in Crime Chapter and a past VP of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. She, her husband, and their son live in a Connecticut house owned by their cat.
