Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical
theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed,
Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this
all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies.
Between working at her brother's school and typing up Inspector Robert
Curran's police reports, Harriet Gordon has little time for personal
pursuits and she has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role in the
Singapore Amateur Dramatic and Musical Society's latest production -
Pirates of Penzance. But Harriet quickly discovers tensions run deep
within the theatre company and when the leading man is found murdered,
suspicions abound, exposing scandalous behavior as well as some
insidious crimes.
Inspector Curran once again turns to Harriet for help with this
difficult case, but his own life begins to unravel as a mysterious man
turns up on his doorstep claiming to know more about Curran's painful
past than he himself does. And after the one person he has always
counted on delivers him some devastating news, the line between his
personal and professional life begins to blur. Now, more than ever,
Curran needs Harriet's steadfast assistance, and when another cast
member meets a violent end, Curran and Harriet will have to close in on
a killer determined to make this case their final curtain call.
