Interrupted Aria (Tito Amato Series, 1) - Softcover

Myers, Beverle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464200009 ISBN 13: 9781464200007

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012

Synopsis

Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a singer whose voice has failed.

Disaster strikes Tito's opera premier when the singer loses one beloved friend to poison and another to unjust accusation and arrest. Alarmed that the merchant-aristocrat who owns the theater is pressing the authorities to close the case, Tito races the executioner to find the real killer. The possible suspects could people the cast of one of his operas: a libertine nobleman and his spurned wife, a jealous soprano, an ambitious composer, and a patrician family bent on the theater's ruin.

With carnival gaiety swirling around him and rousing Venetian passions to an ominous crescendo, Tito finds astonishing secrets lurking behind the masks of his own family and friends.

About this title

About the Author:

Beverle Graves Myers combines a love of Italy, mystery, and opera in her Tito Amato novels featuring an 18th-century singer-sleuth. The latest title in the six-book series is Whispers of Vivaldi. With Joanne Dobson, she has also co-authored Face of the Enemy, a stand-alone mystery set in New York City on the eve of World War II. Beverle and husband Lawrence divide their time between Kentucky and Florida.

Review:

"This is an amazing book. Hard to believe that it's her first. I hope to read many more." (Sara Hoskinson Frommer, author of the Joan Spencer mysteries)

"Myers' absorbing first novel...recreates the opera seria of the time in fascinating detail." (Publishers Weekly)

"[A] riveting first mystery." (Chicago Tribune)

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1464200009
• ISBN 13: 9781464200007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304