Rehearsed to Death
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- $179.00
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- $179.00
Descripción editorial
Award-winning author and playwright Frank Anthony Polito continues his debut cozy mystery series featuring a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses as part of their hit reality show Domestic Partners. Set in suburban Detroit, it's Hart to Hart via HGTV! The perfect combination for fans of home repair and cozy mysteries.
Peter’s first play is having its world premiere at Pleasant Woods’s community theater. His handsome one and only, JP, has the lead. Rehearsals have begun. And New York City’s award-winning, hotshot helmer, Xander Sherwood Deva, is directing. Unfortunately the controlling, arrogant, poison-barbed, egomaniacal diva has everyone on edge. No wonder he finallypushes someone over it . . .
Xander is found strangled to death in the same extra-long, imported cashmere scarf he’s been brandishing like a boa ever since he arrived. In the name of making art he’s burned a lot of bridges and made a lot of enemies but which one wanted to bring down the curtain on him?
As they say in the theater: the show must go on. But not before amateur sleuths Peter and JP become Domestic Partners in Crime and try to solve this deadly real-life drama ahead of opening night.
Praise for Renovated to Death
“Quirky [and] humorous.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A fast, fun read—with bonus renovating tips!”
--Laura Levine, author of Death by Smoothie
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The loquacious PJ Penwell, YA author and cohost of the popular home renovation series Domestic Partners with his sweetheart, JP Broadway, returns in the easygoing follow-up to 2022's Renovated to Death. PJ and JP live in an idyllic, fictional Detroit suburb that boasts "the seventh-highest rate of same-sex couples nationwide," where PJ (who also happens to be an unproduced playwright) is thrilled by a request from the local community theater to produce his magnum opus, Blue Tuesday. Then he encounters the arrogant Xander Sherwood Deva, who has been brought in to direct the show. When Deva turns up dead, it becomes clear that a long list of locals might have cause for the crime. Polito pads his exceedingly thin plot with some entertaining diversions, including one about introducing a second dog to the Penwell-Broadway household and another following the couple as they scope out a new renovation project for their TV series. The mystery is exceptionally simple to solve, but for readers seeking a quick read for a train journey or a bedside book on vacation, this fits the bill.
