Dead on Pointe

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Plot:

When cheerful choreographer Maria Voss arrives at the Hargrove Ballet Company to restage a classic production of Giselle, she expects nothing more dramatic than a temperamental prima ballerina and a leaky studio ceiling. But the accidents come first — a dropped sandbag that grazes the shoulder of corps dancer Tomás, a snapped ankle strap that sends Priya spiraling into the wings, a mysteriously warped floorboard that deposits half the ensemble on the floor during rehearsal. 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.

Then, 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.

Maria 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.

Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and M. C. Beaton, Dead on Pointe is a warm, character-rich mystery set inside the obsessive, glittering world of professional ballet.