Never Try to Catch a Falling Knife: A Lizzie Crane Mystery: 1

In the summer of 1925 ambitious and beautiful New York jazz performer Lizzie Crane and her troupe land a plum job that could give them their big career break: a week-long engagement celebration for the daughter of a wealthy (and shady) industrialist to a Russian count. But Lizzie barely has time to enjoy her good luck--which includes the amorous attentions of the heir to her employers vast fortune--before the groups saxophonist is stabbed to death. The local police suspect her and her musician friends and place them under house arrest where theyre at the mercy of the very people who have the most to lose if the murder is solved. As Lizzie delves into her slain colleagues mysterious past she discovers secrets worth killing to protect and risks her own life in the process.