Overture to Murder

<p>The curtain comes down on murder in OVERTURE TO MURDER the third novel of the Julia Kogan Opera Mystery series. Julia heads to the San Francisco Opera this time with her significant other former NYPD detective Larry Somers and their five-year-old daughter Rebecca. Julia is under inordinate amounts of pressure as she replaces the ailing concertmaster Ben who has suffered serious injuries in a suspicious hit-and-run accident which Julia suspects might not have been accidental. Then one prominent company member becomes the victim of a grisly murder and Julia cannot resist becoming involved in the investigation. As in her previous sleuthing at the Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe Opera Julia once again discovers that fiery artistic temperaments and danger lurking in the dark hallways and back stairways of an opera house provide a chilling backdrop for murder. This time however it's not only her own life that is in peril. </p>