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This will only be sold one time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInfo:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCozy Mystery \/ Small-Town Drama \/ Amateur Sleuth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTarget Audience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdult readers 30+, fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and the Flavia de Luce series. Appeals to readers who love theatre, seaside settings, and community-driven plots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlot: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe show must go on. But first, someone has to find the star. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNora Ashby spent fifteen years as Broadway's most reliable understudy: always prepared, perpetually overlooked, never once handed the spotlight. When a ruinous falling-out with a celebrated director ends her New York career, she retreats to Crestwick Cove, a salt-laced New England town clinging to its off-season charm, and pours every sequin-laced dream she never got to live into founding the Cove Players Children's Theatre.Two weeks before opening night of their debut musical, seventeen-year-old Eli Marsh, Nora's most gifted and complicated lead, vanishes from the theatre during dress rehearsal. The local police call it a runaway case. Nora calls it wrong.As fog rolls in off the harbor and the remaining cast struggles to hold the production together, Nora begins pulling at threads that unravel secrets buried beneath Crestwick Cove's picture-postcard surface: a forged land deed, a decade-old drowning that was never quite ruled accidental, a controlling stage mother with ambitions that stretch far beyond applause, and a town archivist who knows far more than she puts in the public record.Nora has spent her whole life studying the people onstage while the real drama played out in the wings. 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The dressing rooms hum with gossip, the orchestra pit smells of rosin and old secrets, and Maria can't quite convince herself that bad luck comes in fours.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen, on opening night, prima ballerina Celeste Marchand makes her entrance onto a stage that has been tampered with in the one way that cannot be undone. When Celeste slips from the lighting catwalk to her death in the dark below, the curtain falls on more than a performance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaria has no badge, no detective training, and a habit of humming Chopin when she's thinking. What she does have is twenty years of reading bodies — the tension in a dancer's neck, the guilt in a stage manager's downward glance, the love in a dressing-room photograph that someone else doesn't want found. As the company struggles to decide whether to go on with the show, Maria quietly counts steps, follows the music, and finds that the truth, like the best choreography, has been hiding in plain sight all along.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and M. C. 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