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Venice, 1745—an age of reckless pleasures, playful artifice, and baroque excess. An accident has reduced Tito Amato’s glorious singing voice to a husky croak. A tragedy— but also an opportunity. The once celebrated male soprano is now determined to prove himself as a director. With the theater losing subscribers to a rival company headed by an unscrupulous impresario, San Marco’s Maestro Torani charges Tito with locating the perfect opera to fill the seats in time for the opening of Carnival. Surprisingly, a second-rate composer provides the very thing—an opera so replete with gorgeous melodies the public speculates it was written by the late Antonio Vivaldi. Even more disconcerting are the rumors swirling around Angeletto, a male soprano imported from Naples to sing the lead.
About the Author
Beverle Graves Myers mixes murder, music, and intrigue in the Tito Amato Mysteries from Poisoned Pen Press. Set in dazzling, decadent 18th-century Venice, this six-book series features Tito Amato, an opera singer with a generous heart and a talent for sleuthing. Along with Joanne Dobson, Bev has also authored Face of the Enemy, a stand alone traditional mystery set in New York City on the brink of World War II. When not traveling Bev divides her time between Louisville, Kentucky and southwest Florida.
