These Bones Were Made for Dancin'
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Publisher Description
DANCE OF DEATH
Leslie Wetzon is dusting off her tap shoes for a good cause; a benefit revival of the landmark Broadway musical Combinations. Using her headhunting smarts, she tracks down the original cast from eighteen years ago — all except for Terri Matthews, whose disappearing act has a grim finale when a trunk full of bones is unearthed in the basement of a Greenwich Village brownstone.
Between a new associate causing chaos at the office and riding shotgun with her irrepressible partner, Xenia Smith, Wetzon has enough drama in her life. The last thing she needs is a killer with plans for a chilling encore: a dance on Wetzon's grave.
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Both Broadway and Wall Street snap to life in this sixth Smith and Wetzon mystery (after Murder: The Musical). Leslie Wetzon, a former dancer who is now partner of an executive headhunting firm with the elegant Xenia Smith, is drawn into a murder mystery that's at least 15 years old when a skeleton with a bullet through its skull turns up in a Greenwich Village brownstone. At the same time, Wetzon and an old friend are collaborating on a two-day charity revival of an 18-year-old musical, for which they're recruiting the original cast and crew. One cast member, dancer Terri Matthews, once a close friend of Wetzon's, can't be located. Is the skeleton what's left of Terri? Wetzon and her lover, NYPD detective Silvestri, try to find out. The suspects, most of them associated with the original musical, are a wonderfully drawn, backbiting, jealous and vindictive lot-and Terri, despite her farm-fresh image, turns out to have been an egregious vamp. Meyers plunges Wetzon into a frenetic routine of rehearsing, recruiting and sleuthing, as NYC at holiday time provides an electric background for a lively, gleefully bitchy whodunit.
