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Stagestruck

Stagestruck

by PeterLovesey (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

    $4.53
Synopsis

Clarion Calhoun is a fading pop star wanting to launch an acting career. The audience at her debut on stage at Bath's Theatre Royal are expecting a dramatic evening - but what they get is beyond their wildest imagination. When Clarion is rushed to hospital with third degree burns, rumours spread through the theatrical community and beyond. In the best theatrical tradition, the show goes on, but the agony turns to murder. The case falls to Peter Diamond, Bath's top detective - but for reasons he can't understand, he suffers a physical reaction amounting to phobia each time he goes near the theatre. As he tries to find its root in his past, the tension at the Theatre Royal mounts, legends come to life and the killer strikes again ...

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Sphere
Published: 07 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 184744444X
ISBN 13: 9781847444448

Media Reviews
Praise for Stagestruck A brilliantly conceived and smartly executed mystery set in the hallowed Theater Royal of Bath.... As always, the plot's the thing with Lovesey, and the solution to the mystery of Clarion's disfigurement, while arrived at fair and square, is stunning. But the story also has genuine depth and dimension. -- The New York Times Book Review Mr. Lovesey's narrative is swift, but he takes time out for local color and abundant humor, the latter springing from the book's quirky characters.... Lovesey is a wizard at mixing character-driven comedy with realistic-to-grim suspense. And in a writing career spanning four decades, he has created a stylish and varied body of work.... That Mr. Lovesey would make a midcareer transition from period fiction to contemporary police investigations is just as surprising as one of the sudden mood shifts in any of his idiosyncratic works--and just as satisfying. -- Wall Street Journal Lovesey, as always, uses h
Author Bio
Peter Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him awards all over the world, including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman in 1991-2. He also recently won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.