Dark Music
Janis Susan May
Janis Susan May's murder mystery Dark Music may start a tad slow,
but it quickly
builds up the pace and the intensity. Elizabeth McAllister, an author
of
romance novels, is contracted to make a public appearance for fans. The
convention is in Canada
and rather than endure a flight with the other authors from the same
publishing
company, she insists on driving alone to the convention. She'd rather
not
attend the whole thing in the first place but duty says she must do her
part along
with her fellow authors, the group that has been dubbed the Fab Four.
Before the official start of the convention Canada
experiences a late season blizzard. Due to the raging weather no on can
get to
and from the hotel. When a person from her past is also stuck in the
hotel, Elizabeth
is forced to reveal a secret she has kept hidden from the others.
As she
struggles to deal with her own past, a fellow best selling author is
murdered
in the hotel. Elizabeth
is trying to figure out why the author was killed when another one is
found
murdered. Now only able to trust herself, Elizabeth
is in fear for her own safety. The Fab Four are quickly getting killed,
picked off
one at a time. Trapped by the blizzard with the killer, Elizabeth
knows she is being targeted, likely the next victim. There are several
suspects
who seem to fit each murder, so the identity of the true killer is
cleverly
hidden until the very end.
Dark Music is a very
suspenseful murder mystery which,
when it picked up the flow, went full steam ahead. And the
interaction between Elizabeth and the man from her past adds romance as
a second source of tension to the plot. . The cold of the weather can
not dampen the rising heat between them. Dark Music is a good choice
for summer reading for fans of both light romance and suspenseful
mysteries.