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Poisoned Pen Press
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Tito Amato; Maestro Torani
250 pages
ISBN: 1464202087
EAN: 9781464202087
Kindle: B00HLSY9S8
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Fiction | Historical
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. Is the
singer truly a castrato or a female soprano engaging in a
daring but lucrative masquerade? Both matters lead the perplexed Tito into dangerous waters
that turn murderous when Maestro Torani undergoes a series
of increasingly vicious attacks ending in his death. And
Tito is the prime suspect. His own life as well as the
future of Teatro San Marco now depend on his skills as a
sleuth….
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