If you’ve read borg long at all you know the work of contributor Elizabeth C. Bunce. Her day job is as author, and for the past five years we’ve reported on the success of her latest, bestselling Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries Series. Elizabeth has been recognized as a winner or finalist for every major mystery award, including winning the Edgar Award–the top award of them all awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, as well as winning the Silver Falchion and being voted a finalist four times for the Agatha Award and three times for the Anthony Award. No other author has achieved all these kudos for a single series in the mystery, crime, suspense, and intrigue genres. With her third Edgar Award nomination this year, Elizabeth’s Myrtle Hardcastle series joined a trifecta only achieved by previous winners Michael Connelly’s Bosch series, Tony Hillerman’s Dark Winds series, Harlan Coben’s Bolitar series, Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series, Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series, Stuart Kaminsky’s Inspector Rostnikov series, Sir Ian Rankin’s John Rebus series, Dick Francis’s Sid Halley series, Wendelin Von Draanen’s Sammy Keyes series, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Bessledorf series.
Now for the first time Elizabeth’s series is being released in a boxed set today. Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries: The Complete Gift Set is available now here at Amazon.
borg contributor, and Edgar Award-winning author Elizabeth C. Bunce launched her Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series in 2020. Publishers Weekly referred to the Myrtle Hardcastle mystery series as “the best thing to happen to youth mysteries since Trixie Belden.” Not only did Premeditated Myrtle win the 2020 Edgar Award, it was named an Honor Book by the century-old Society for Midland Authors, and it was named to the Library of Congress’s annual Great Reads from Great Places list. The kudos go on and on.
Check out Elizabeth’s reviews of books, TV, and movies at borg here. The Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series is published by Algonquin Young Readers, a division of Workman Publishing Company and Hachette Publishing. Edited by Elise Howard, artwork and design for the series was created by Brett Helquist (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Laura Williams, and Carla Weise. Premeditated Myrtle, How to Get Away with Myrtle, Cold-Blooded Myrtle, In Myrtle Peril, and Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity are all available in hardcover, Audiobook, eBook, and paperback and now as the Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries: The Complete Gift Set. Don’t miss the audiobooks of each book performed brilliantly by actor Bethan Rose Young (Knightfall, High Seas)–including a new bundled audio set.
Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries: The Complete Gift Set is available now here at Amazon.
