The Fourth Wall

Alex Bernier #3

by Beth Saulnier

After a near-fatal confrontation with a serial killer, irreverent reporter Alex Bernier is more than happy to cover a nice, dull story on the ongoing, hapless attempts to save a grand old theatre in Gabriel, the college town in upstate New York where she lives. But when the body of a long-vanished actress turns up in the wreckage and high-profile theatre supporters start dying off, Alex finds herself at odds with a strange troupe of suspects. There is a duplicitous former child star and a group of academic wives harbouring nasty secrets, not to mention a vicious mob boss. Again, Alex must play the detective, sorting illusion from deadly truth and, with luck, outwitting a murderer determined to bring an end to her performance.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

aka Elizabeth Bloom

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, although a murder mystery, is refreshingly hilarious! Too bad our library has no other books in the series.

[Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one started out very slowly, and I was thinking it might be a ho-hum 3 stars, but it really picked up around the halfway mark. Another really good book in the series.