Publisher's Synopsis
Cloughton Repertory Company is busy rehearsing a new play - then a terrible and bizarre event occurs, when one of the cast is shot dead while awaiting his cue to go on stage.Who would want to murder a small town actor in an amateur dramatics company?
Enter DCI Benny Mitchell and his team.Forensics soon discover that the fatal bullet came from the same gun which was used to kill a policeman during a recent terrorist attack in London.
And suddenly, what seemed to be a local, isolated incident becomes part of an international counter-terrorist investigation...
Praise for Pauline Bell's previous works:
'Pauline Bell imbues her work with a liveliness and sense of purpose.'Yorkshire Post
'In the tradition of the classic English thriller... like Agatha Christie, only with better characterization.'
Sunday Press, Dublin
'Choral compulsion - or is it mania? - engagingly analysed as red herrings are neatly floated between high notes and low.'Guardian
'A satisfying series of accumulated surprises.'Scotsman
