Pirouette

<p>Fans of literary detective fiction will enjoy this elegantly crafted novella that explores how the tenderest emotions can be subverted through the alchemy of evil.</p> <p>After graduating college Vladimir Petrovsky joins his beautiful mother a former prima ballerina at her ballet school in a mansion overlooking the Hudson River where they lead an isolated self-indulgent life . . . until the disappearance of one and then another dancer alters their lives forever. The local police chief asks P. J. O'Malley a retired NYPD detective to help in the investigation. Over time nearly everyone becomes convinced that the girls' disappearance is the work of a sinister stranger. O'Malley is not so sure.</p>