Farewell Performance

Tessa Barclay. Severn House Publishers, $25.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7278-5773-6

Bestselling U.K. author Tessa Barclay (A Lovely Illusion) turns her talents to crime fiction in Farewell Performance, the story of a concert agent turned amateur detective. Gregory Crowne whose real name happens to be Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein wants to discover who stole a maestro's priceless cello, but when a suspicious case of food poisoning kills one of his clients, he realizes that his investigation is more complicated and dangerous than he ever could have suspected.

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