Corpse de Ballet : A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore

by Pall, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780312980108
• ISBN10: 0312980108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-19
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

To Juliet Bodine, a successful writer of historical romances, helping an old friend mount a ballet production of Great Expectations seemed to be a great way to put off writing. But behind the image of elegant perfection and effortless grace, Juliet discovers a backstage world torn by intense rivalry and competing agendas. When a series of accidents leads to the death of a dancer, Juliet begins to suspect that a murderer is out to sabotage the performance at any cost. Even worse, Juliet stands out as the primary suspect. With Brooklyn detective Murray Landis-a mysterious acquaintance from her past-Juliet sets out to clear her name, find the killer, and save the production before opening night....AUTHORBIO: ELLEN PALL, a novelist whose prose has been praised as "precise, shrewd and brightly amusing" (Kirkus Reviews), with sentences that are "good enough to eat" (The New Yorker), is the author of Back East and Among the Ginzburgs; she has also written nine Regency romances under the pen name Fiona Hill. As a freelance journalist, she has written extensively on people in the arts for The New York Times and other publications. Corpse de Ballet is her first mystery. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Richard Dicker, and their son, Ben.

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"Terrific."--Denver Rocky Mountain News

"Both mystery and ardent balletomanes will be left with great expectations and eager anticipation for the next in the series."--Publishers Weekly