Murder at the Opera, D.M. Quincy
Murder at the Opera, D.M. Quincy
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Murder at the Opera

Author: D.M. Quincy

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

When a nobleman's mistress is gunned down on the steps of the Covent Garden opera house, brilliant adventurer Atlas Catesby discovers a sinister family connection that compels him to investigate.

London, 1815. Amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby is about to discover the dark side of the bright lights. His long-awaited night at the opera with Lady Lilliana ends abruptly when a notorious courtesan is shot to death in Covent Garden.

The infamous victim was the mistress of the powerful Marquess of Vessey. Atlas believes that the marquess—his former brother in law—is responsible for the long-ago death of Atlas's sister, Phoebe. Atlas seizes the opportunity to potentially avenge his sister's death. But his inquiry is complicated when Phoebe's grown son implores Atlas to help prove Vessey's innocence.

Plunging into the cutthroat backstage life of the theater community, the adventurer and the noblewoman soon discover that ruthless professional rivalries can escalate into violence, setting the stage for death in Murder at the Opera, D. M. Quincy's third riveting Atlas Catesby mystery set in Regency England.

About D.M. Quincy

D. M. Quincy is an award-winning journalist who-after covering many unsolved murders-decided to conceive her own stories in which a brilliant amateur detective always gets the bad guy (or girl). As a U.S. Foreign Service brat, D. M. was bitten by the travel bug practically at birth, and like her protagonist Atlas Catesby, tries to visit far-flung places as often as she can. When she isn't hunched over her laptop researching ways for her villains to kill people, D. M. devours foreign television mystery series on Netflix and plots her next travel adventure. She lives in Virginia with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cameron

I love the opera. I love murder mysteries. I'm in! I have somewhat mixed feelings about anthologies, which can be a mixed bag. Here there are some stories that I would categorize as thrillers, rather than mysteries, but there were some winners in here as well- I specifically loved the Rex Stout story......more

A pretty good collection, and I read two of the stories twice, after finishing it over NYE weekend. A couple were kind of boring, and I questioned why the O Henry selection was in there, but honestly? There's nothing especially vampiric about Neil Gaiman's "Snow, Glass, Apples," and that was an icon......more