THE TRILL IS GONE / A Blanchard House Mystery
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Violist Althea Stewart and best friend, cellist and soprano Grace Sullivan, are private music teachers bewildered by the incompetence of the new public school music teacher, Shadiyah Kassar. When she turns up as the soprano soloist in the local production of Handels oratorio Hercules they are horrified to realize that Shadiyah is completely tone deaf, as well as anti-social. Delilah Cantwell, head of music in the Kirkland School System, has hired this beautiful young Pakistani woman, fresh from The Royal Conservatory of Toronto, to teach music and to sing the role of Iole based on her resume alone. Now everyone involved must face the disastrous consequences. When the worlds worst soprano fails to show up for the performance and Grace steps in to sing in her stead, there is short-lived relief, that is until Shadiyahs body is found in the parking lot after the concert. Only a week before, another young soprano in the choir, Helen Etheridge, had been found hanging in her home. Both women had been seen talking heatedly in the church parking lot only hours before Helens suicide. Could there be a connection? Althea has been seeing Harry Demetrious, a Kirkland, WA police detective, ever since they met after a murder at Altheas and Graces home and music school, Blanchard House six months before. Harry keeps hinting about a marriage proposal, and Althea is contemplating her choices. Meanwhile Grace and newly divorced bassist Emile Girard of the Seattle Symphony have become a couple, but his teenage kids are doing everything they can to drive a wedge between them.When Shadiyah Kassars twin brother Hafiz arrives from Pakistan to claim the body, things become strangely complicated. No one wants to say terrible things about a dead woman to her brother, no matter how true, especially not at the Indian Fe
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