Missed Cues
Lynn Slaughter
243 pages
Melange Books
published August 8, 2023
It’s not often you read a mystery about ballet. This started off with a bang and didn’t let up. There’s a strong female detective trying to solve the case and working on herself at the same time.
There’s a mix of the case and the lives of the detective. Also a mix of the police procedural and the ballet world.
I read this one in a day as I tried to figure out what had happened. This is the second book of the author’s I’ve read and was not disappointed.
When ballerina Lydia Miseau dies onstage in the final dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet, homicide detective Caitlin O’Connor is faced with the most complicated case of her career. She strongly suspects that someone murdered the ballerina, and her investigation uncovers several people close to the star who had reasons to kill her. But the autopsy reveals no apparent cause of death. If Lydia Miseau was murdered, who did it, and how?
Meantime, there’s Caitlin’s hot mess of a personal life. She has a bad habit of getting involved with married men. She knows it’s wrong, so why does she keep entangling herself in unhealthy relationships? She’s finally decided to go into therapy to find out.
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