Minotaur Books
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
Featuring: Cordelia Thorn; P.I. Jane Lawless
304 pages ISBN: 1250047692 EAN: 9781250047694 Kindle: B00JD03CU8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouseβs future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past.
Nicknamed βThe Old Deep and Darkβ because of the Prohibition-era double murder that occurred in the basementβthen a speakeasyβthere are a wealth of secrets hidden inside its walls. And, to her shock and horror, Cordelia discovers that there is also one present-day body literally buried in a basement wall. Cordelia immediately calls on her best friend, P.I. Jane Lawless.
Although Jane is already in the thick of another investigationβshe's embroiled in a well-known country-western singerβs family scandalβshe agrees to help Cordelia out on the side. But show-biz is a small world, and as Jane starts tracing the trails of two separate investigations, she's surprised to find they might not be as unconnected as she thought.
With The Old Deep and Dark, the latest installment in the award-winning Jane Lawless series, Ellen Hart has crafted another impeccably plotted, seamlessly written mystery.
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