From Sept. Publisher's Weekly: "At the start of West's sophisticated second Emma Streat mystery (after 2007's WITHOUT WARNING, Emma, a former diva who still mourns her late husband as well as the loss of her singing voice and her house on the Connecticut River ("now a pile of bombed out rubble"), flies from Boston to Venice to stop her opera star niece, Vanessa Metcalf, from running away with a millionaire playboy who races cars. In Vanessa's opulent hotel room after a recital, Emma discovers the body of Vanessa's accompanist, Mark Dykstra, hanging from a curtain rod, an apparent suicide.
