A Deadly Clue: A Hunter and Clewe Mystery

By Victoria Gilbert

Hunter and Clewe are back in the third Hunter and Clewe mystery, from acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert, when a closed case is reopened after another member of a prominent family is murdered.

Cameron Clewe and Jane Hunter, lovers of all things bookish, are slowly cataloging Cam's private collection of first edition books acquired from the deceased patriarch of the wealthy Stewart family. When Jane finds a note from Kimberly Stewart Ward, one of the daughters of the Stewart patriarch--who supposedly committed suicide--she discovers someone was actually targeting her with the intention of killing her.

Jane and Cam decide to look into the supposedly closed case, but their investigation becomes urgent when another member of the Stewart family is found dead from a drug overdose. The victim's friends claim he'd been clean and sober for years and refuse to accept the cause of death.

Believing both cases to be connected, Jane and Cam are determined to solve them before any other direct heirs of the family are targeted.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6MKQJSD
• ISBN13: 9798892422154
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Family can kill you

It looks as if murder stalks the Stewart family. After being forced into retirement from the university library at 62, Jane Hunter took a position in the private library on the Clewe estate owned by the rather reclusive and phobic thirtysomething Cam Clewe and rents a garage apartment from retired journalist Vince Fisher who abets Hunter and Clewe in their investigations. Clewe has ordered ten books from the Stewart estate. When Hunter goes to pick them up, she meets more than one family member and finds that she has inadvertently picked up an extra one which contains a note written by a family member who had evidently died by suicide several years ago. But the note is one of frustration that no one believes her insistence that someone was out to murder her. Hmm. In a few days, one of the family members is dead and ruled a suicide. Clewe doesn't believe in that decision and initiates a complex and frustrating investigation. Expect the author's usual fast pace, engaging characters, and really surprising twists. Great! I requested and received a temporary uncorrected review galley from Crooked Lane Books via NetGalley. Preorder for Jan. 13, 2026. #ADeadlyClue by #victoriagilbertauthor #HunterandCleweBk3 #crookedlanebooks #mysterybooks #mysterybookstagram #hunterandclewemystery #preorder #netgalley #familydrama #familydynamics