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Where to buy at Best Price Find Best A Case of You Information “She had a voice like an angel, smooth and complex as a twenty-year-old single malt, rich as thick cream. Everyone who heard Olivia sing felt as if she could see right into their souls, that her songs were meant for them alone… In earlier times, she would have been put to death as a witch.” Andy Curran is a drummer in a struggling jazz trio. When a distinctly odd street person sings at an open mic night at the club where they work, it’s clear they’ve found their salvation: a vocalist of incredible talent. When she departs as abruptly as she’d arrived, Andy sets out to discover where Olivia Saint has gone and who she really is. That knowledge soon proves to be deadly indeed. In A Case of You, a crime novel that sweeps from the jazz clubs of Toronto, to New York City and Northern California, Rick Blechta has created a compelling story, rich in detail and compassion, and populated with characters not easily forgotten.
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Where to buy at Best Price Find Best Shooting Straight in the Dark Information Thirty-year-old Kit Mason has been blind for six years, and she still hasn’t accepted what has happened to her. Not only is her career as a songwriter/guitarist stalled, but her personal life is the pits. Kit’s closest friends, Carolina, Susan, Marion, and Jackie, all members of her former softball team, the Ruthless Babes, have encouraged her to branch out in her music, and decide – during a ribald and beer-fuelled get-together – to kick-start her social life with a companion-wanted ad in a Toronto newspaper.
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With the fighting spirit that served them well on the baseball diamond, they throw themselves – sometimes literally – into the investigation, much to the annoyance of the police detective assigned to the case. What they find puts them all at risk, and affects Kit’s life in ways she never could have expected – just when her musical career and her love-life are taking a turn for the better.
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Cemetery of the Nameless A delightful mix of music and mystery – PJ Coldren – Saint Helen, MI, USA
Victoria Morgan is a violin virtuoso, with the temperment and passions that one might expect in a woman with that kind of talent. While in Europe, Tory is lured away from her very successful tour by an Austrian aristocrat, tempting her with a newly discovered concerto, almost certainly Beethoven’s last work. Baron Rudolph von Heislinger has designs on Tory which have nothing to do with music. At the end of an evening of fine dining, very good wines, and some great music, Baron Rudy puts the moves on Tory. When she wakes up, she has been raped and Baron Rudy is dead on the bed beside her, with her fingerprints on the knife sticking out of his chest.
Her husband Rocky Lukesh is back in Canada when the news breaks that his wife is being sought for the murder. He high-tails it off to Vienna, hooks up with Tory’s accompanist Roderick Whitchurch, and tries to figure out what happened. One of Rocky’s problems is Tory herself. She has cheated on him before, although after the last time, she promised “never again”. So Rocky is dealing with the facts of what happened, the rumors of what might or might not have happened, and the possibilities – all of which seem to shift on a daily, sometimes hourly basis.
There are police involved – a “good” cop with a musician for a daughter, who helps Rocky behind the scenes. There is the “bad” cop, almost a caricature, who has painted himself into a corner with the press and is therefor reluctant to consider new evidence, no matter how compelling.
CEMETARY OF THE NAMELESS is a good mystery. There are enough plausible suspects for Baron Rudy’s murder, all with viable motives and opportunity. The atmosphere provided by the setting – Vienna and parts of non-urban Austiria – is moving and very much in keeping with the tone of the book. Blechta is a musician, and one can see this in the recurring themes weaving in and out of the work. While I know that some of the musical information went right over my head, I grasped enough to know that Tory’s obsession with this last Beethoven concerto was possible, given her character as written by Blechta.
Again, CEMETARY OF THE NAMELESS is a good mystery. It probably resonates more for people with the musical background to appreciate some of Blechta’s writing on that field. If you enjoy mysteries set in Europe, mysteries with a fine sense of place, mysteries with a strong element of the thriller, then I would strongly recommend Rick Blechta’s CEMETARY OF THE NAMELESS to you. I can’t speak to his other three mysteries, but suspect that they would prove to be satisfying as well.
: Victoria Morgan, violin virtuoso, is on yet another European tour. While playing to a full house in Vienna’s famous “Golden Hall”, Tory abruptly leaves the stage and disappears into the night, leaving behind an angry and puzzled audience. Why would someone so intent on her career do something so damaging? When an Austrian aristocrat is found murdered, suspicion focusses on Tory, who appears to be running from the police, the press and her long-suffering husband, Rocky. Or is she? All of this action is set around the mysterious appearance of a violin concerto of incredible worth. Is it truly by Beethoven? Was Tory to be the first to perform this dream piece, or was she led into a trap? Now it looks as if it’s up to Rocky to help save Tory from herself and figure out who is committing the growing number of murders—if it isn’t his wife.
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