| Interrupted Aria Contributor(s): Myers, Beverle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1464200009 ISBN-13: 9781464200007 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Tito Amato (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.83 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Myers, Beverle Graves: - 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. |
