It ain't over till the fat lady sings . . . but the show hasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage.
Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor to his beloved Annabel, but now they're both being pressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer. Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, current P.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins.
Soon the Smiths find themselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast of suspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover is an increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to a dark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing on a fateful night at the opera attended by none other than the President himself.
As a terror alert grips the city, a promising opera singer is found dead at the Washington National Opera (WNO). Then, a six-year-old murder case revolving around lost Mozart-Haydn string masterpieces is reopened. Besides the engaging plot, the delight of this audiobook lies in its background music, opera lore, and plethora of quirky characters. Phil Gigante's narration is adept with African-American, Iranian, and British accents, as well as the vocabulary of Italian opera. Gigante's narration is so potent that cops, terrorists, divas, and the crime-fighting couple of Mac and Annabel are all uniquely distinguishable as they navigate the glamour and grime that is our nation's capital. K.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
About the Author
MARGARET TRUMAN (1924-2008) won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. She was the author of many nonfiction books, including The President's House, in which she shared some of the secrets and history of the White House, where she once resided. She passed away on January 29, 2008.
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