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Encore
Shortlisted for the 2016 Bony Blithe Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
When actress Bella James relocates to the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to perform at the renowned Shaw Festival, she is only looking to step out of the spotlight of television celebrity and onto the stage. What she finds instead are long-buried human remains in the yard of her rented house. Upon learning that a woman was brutally attacked in the home thirty years earlier, Bella becomes convinced the two events are inextricably linked and that a deeper story was buried with the bones. With the help of a detective desperate to prove his worth, Bella begins asking questions that should have been asked decades earlier about a victim no one seems to have missed. In doing so, she soon finds herself embroiled in a dangerous drama both on and off the stage.
A fast-paced, cozy mystery that combines humour, heartbreak, and plenty of suspense, Encore offers a backstage look at life in the theatre along with plot twists that will surprise and delight even the best armchair sleuth.
When actress Bella James relocates to the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to perform at the renowned Shaw Festival, she is only looking to step out of the spotlight of television celebrity and onto the stage. What she finds instead are long-buried human remains in the yard of her rented house. Upon learning that a woman was brutally attacked in the home thirty years earlier, Bella becomes convinced the two events are inextricably linked and that a deeper story was buried with the bones. With the help of a detective desperate to prove his worth, Bella begins asking questions that should have been asked decades earlier about a victim no one seems to have missed. In doing so, she soon finds herself embroiled in a dangerous drama both on and off the stage.
A fast-paced, cozy mystery that combines humour, heartbreak, and plenty of suspense, Encore offers a backstage look at life in the theatre along with plot twists that will surprise and delight even the best armchair sleuth.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 8, 2019
About the author
Alexis Koetting
5 books12 followersAlexis has been working as a Canadian Actor for over to twenty years and has appeared on stage at the acclaimed Stratford Festival, Perchance Theatre at Cupids, the Watermark Theatre in PEI, The Sudbury Theatre Centre, The Lighthouse Festival Theatre, and many others.She holds a BFA with a Specialization in Theatre Performance from Concordia University in Montreal and a Masters Degree in Education from Medaille College in Buffalo.
Alexis lived in Niagara-on-the-Lake for over a decade but now makes her home in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Encore is Alexis' debut novel and the first in the Bella James series and was shortlisted for the 2016 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and the Bony Blithe Award. The sequel, Triple Threat, was released in early 2018, and the third book in the series, Revival, in 2020.
Alexis lived in Niagara-on-the-Lake for over a decade but now makes her home in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Encore is Alexis' debut novel and the first in the Bella James series and was shortlisted for the 2016 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and the Bony Blithe Award. The sequel, Triple Threat, was released in early 2018, and the third book in the series, Revival, in 2020.
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