Murder at the opera : a capital crimes novel / Margaret Truman.

1st ed.

9780345478221 paperback
0345478223 paperback

New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.

English

xiii, 381 p. ; 18 cm.

PS3570.R82 M75455 2007

Political opera has been alive and well in Washington D.C. since the city became the nation's capital, and the Washington National Opera company, housed at the Kennedy Center, is no stranger to politics itself. Murder at the Opera re-introduces a popular couple who have appeared in some of the earlier Capital Crimes novels: law professor Mac Smith and his wife, Georgetown gallery owner Annabel Reed-Smith, who has a professional relationship with some of the Washington National Opera's most renowned players - its trustees. The book opens with a bloody discovery: the corpse of a young soprano who has been skewered with a prop from the WNO's soon-to-premiere production of Puccini's Tosca. As the media swarm, the company sets up its own task force, and Annabel asks Mac to be involved. Life imitates opera, and suddenly all the performers seem to have something to hide: passions for one another, histories better left uncovered, and even connections to foreign terrorists. The murder investigation is in a race against time mere weeks before opening night, a black-tie gala at which everyone - including the President himself - will be in the seats.
A diva is found dead on stage at the Washington National Opera and Mac Smith and Annabel Reed-Smith are pressured by the panicked theater board to find the killer.

With an excerpt from Murder on K Street.

Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008. Capital crimes series.

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