A Map to Murder
A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery
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Publisher Description
Beloved true crime tour guide Capri Sanzio returns in Michelle Chouinard’s A Map to Murder, the next book in the USA Today bestselling Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mysteries.
True crime tour guide and serial killer aficionado Capri Sanzio knows how central the Summer of Love is to San Francisco’s identity—even if she’s always had conflicted feelings about it. She’s used to weaving feel-good hippie culture and music into her Haight-Ashbury true crime tales, centering her tours around what happens when a revolution looking to lift up the best ideals humanity has to offer clashes with the darkest souls hidden among humanity’s shadows. But what she’s not used to is a guest stepping out from those shadows to drop a murder investigation directly into her lap.
A woman has gone missing in San Francisco after trying to solve her aunt’s murder: a cold case from the Summer of Love. Capri sees herself in the missing woman—both were unable to find the answers they desperately wanted as kids—and sees her own daughter in the tour guest begging for her help. Unable to turn the case away, Capri finds herself following a trail of flower-power footprints turned deadly—straight to a killer who has her in their sights.
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San Francisco true crime tour guide Capri Sanzio helps a client track down her missing mother in Chouinard's lively sequel to A Tour to Die For. During one of Capri's tours about the Summer of Love, Haley Torres approaches and asks for help. Haley's mother, Jennifer, came to San Francisco weeks earlier to investigate the 1967 murder of Haley's great-aunt Marilyn. Having heard nothing from her since, Haley fears that her mother might be dead, the victim of either the same person who killed her great-aunt or someone who wants to keep that murder a secret. Alternating with Haley and Jennifer's investigation are chapters following a teenage Marilyn in the 1960s, who escapes from her abusive father, moves to San Francisco, and embraces big-city life. Chouinard effortlessly evokes the ambience of hippie-era California, capturing both the buoyant idealism of the time and its savage underbelly. The main mystery, meanwhile, is solid if somewhat forgettable. Local color is the real draw here, and Chouinard delivers it in spades.
