Interrupted Aria, Beverle Graves Myers
Interrupted Aria, Beverle Graves Myers
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Interrupted Aria
The First Baroque Mystery

Author: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrator: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2012

Synopsis

Venice, the dazzling city on the lagoon, is sailing toward the ruin of her maritime empire, determined to go down in a maelstrom of pleasure, music, and masquerade. Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day, and the castrati are its reigning stars. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a castrato whose voice has failed. Disaster strikes Titos opera premier when the singer loses one beloved friend to poison and another to unjust accusation and arrest. Alarmed that the merchant-aristocrat who owns the theater is pressing the authorities to close the case, Tito races the executioner to find the real killer. The possible suspects could people the cast of one of his operas: a libertine nobleman and his spurned wife, a jealous soprano, an ambitious composer, and a patrician family bent on the theaters ruin. With Carnival gaiety swirling around him and rousing Venetian passions in an ominous crescendo, Tito finds that the most astonishing secrets lurk behind the masks of his own family and friends.

About Beverle Graves Myers

Beverle Graves Myers practiced psychiatry at a public mental-health clinic before making a midlife career switch to writing. She is the author of the Tito Amato mystery series and the Helluva War series, as well as numerous short stories and articles. Her short story “Haven City” won the 2006 Million Writers Award. She lives in Kentucky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on October 30, 2012

The writing in this historical genre mystery is competent but unexceptional. However, its plot was well structured, the characters were well portrayed and three-dimensional and the plot was good.......more

Goodreads review by Darlene on September 19, 2012

Tito Amata and his friend, Felice, are returning to Venice for the first time in 8 years. Tito is destined for a brilliant careeer as a castrato singer in the opera houses of Venice. Felice is not quite so fortunate. His vocal chords have hardened, ruining the purity of his voice. Opera is queen amon......more

Goodreads review by FicusFan on November 08, 2008

This is an historical mystery, set in Venice in the 1730s. The main character is a castrato, a young man who was deliberately castrated when he was young to insure his voice would stay high and pure. I really wanted to like this book a lot. Venice is one of my favorite locations, and the castrati are......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on January 07, 2020

A unique mystery that takes place in Venice in 1731. The city of canals is an ideal location for a mystery. No one moves around town too fast as transportation is limited by foot or boat. The city is hidden behind it's masks of Carnival where anything seems to go. The love of opera creates a strange......more

Goodreads review by Julie on July 19, 2023

The pacing is off and there is a reliance on telling rather than showing. But this is readable and interesting, the setting is not just the same English countryside, and the resolution had some surprises.......more

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