Start of bridge game ends with murder

It’s your deal.

Cards cut, they’re in your hand and now you dole them out. Thirteen cards each, one at a time around the table, let the game begin. Do you bid, or pass and hope that your partner has a good hand? As in the new mystery, “Peg and Rose Solve a Murder” by Laurien Berenson, do you even have a shot at winning?

It should’ve been a very good day.

Peg Turnbull was judging at a dog show and being with dogs was her favorite thing. The dog show community in her part of Connecticut was close-knit, she knew everyone, the sun was shining – and then she saw her sister-in-law, Rose.

Back when P...