Interrupted Aria
$25.20
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2012
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464200007 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464200009 |
| Author: | Beverle Myers |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Tito Amato Series |
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Critics Review
“This is an amazing book. Hard to believe that it’s her first. I hope to read many more.”
[A] riveting first mystery.– “Chicago Tribune”
Myers’ absorbing first novel…recreates the opera seria of the time in fascinating detail.– “Publishers Weekly”
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”
Beverle Myers
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.
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