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Dead on Stage: The Man in the Mirror Quartet, Book 1
Dead on Stage is Book One of The Man in the Mirror quartet of mysteries.
People say that Terry Qhaine is an inhuman, amoral, arrogant asshole, but he is still a major Broadway star and the best dancer in musical theater. So no one can understand why he leaves New York suddenly and returns to his old dance school in Atlanta. However, it becomes vitally important to find out why after Detective Joseph Lucca finds Qhaine sitting beside the body of a murdered woman.
If anyone ever deserved killing, choreographer Althea Cunningham did. Her gruesome murder throws Lucca into the volatile, ego-driven environment of a theatrical dance school where the spotlight of suspicion focuses on the circle of artists that had surrounded the ex-lover she tortured; the sculptor whose life she ruined; the agent whose husband she went after; the architect she blackmailed; the dance director whose school she almost wrecked; the teenage dancer she seduced; and the photographer whose marriage she destroyed. Only by unlocking the true history of the group can the murderer be caught, and Lucca is positive that the prime suspect, Terence Qhaine, is the key to it all.
But sometimes catching the killer isn’t all there is to a case. From the beginning, Lucca senses that there is something dark looming in the background—much bigger and more threatening than this local investigation—something tied to the “ Who is Terry Qhaine?” And as Lucca is drawn further into that world of illusion, the question morphs into the more frightening “ What is Terry Qhaine?” Does he exist at all, or is he really only the image in the mirror?
People say that Terry Qhaine is an inhuman, amoral, arrogant asshole, but he is still a major Broadway star and the best dancer in musical theater. So no one can understand why he leaves New York suddenly and returns to his old dance school in Atlanta. However, it becomes vitally important to find out why after Detective Joseph Lucca finds Qhaine sitting beside the body of a murdered woman.
If anyone ever deserved killing, choreographer Althea Cunningham did. Her gruesome murder throws Lucca into the volatile, ego-driven environment of a theatrical dance school where the spotlight of suspicion focuses on the circle of artists that had surrounded the ex-lover she tortured; the sculptor whose life she ruined; the agent whose husband she went after; the architect she blackmailed; the dance director whose school she almost wrecked; the teenage dancer she seduced; and the photographer whose marriage she destroyed. Only by unlocking the true history of the group can the murderer be caught, and Lucca is positive that the prime suspect, Terence Qhaine, is the key to it all.
But sometimes catching the killer isn’t all there is to a case. From the beginning, Lucca senses that there is something dark looming in the background—much bigger and more threatening than this local investigation—something tied to the “ Who is Terry Qhaine?” And as Lucca is drawn further into that world of illusion, the question morphs into the more frightening “ What is Terry Qhaine?” Does he exist at all, or is he really only the image in the mirror?
381 pages, Paperback
Published June 6, 2023
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