It's the Depression and life is hard. Dance marathons are a way to make money, but it's hard, and the competition is fierce. Is it worth killing over? This is the question newly appointed Boston ME Haley Higgins must determine. Especially when a second death occurs. And it's the wife of the first victim. Helping her investigate is journalist and good friend Samantha Hawke. Death by Dancing is part of the Higgins & Hawke Mystery series by Lee Strauss.

The Black Cat Murders, the second mystery by Karen Baugh Menuhin was even better than the first! Lennox is supposed to be at a wedding, he's had an invitation and two telegrams, which he is ignoring. However, when he gets a call that there has been a death, one that was at first considered an accident but now, not so much, he has to go and do a bit of sleuthing. A stage has collapsed during the final scene in an opera (put on for the wedding party). The soprano (think Wagnerian soprano) has fallen on the tenor. Could this be 'death by soprano'? There are other bodies, of course, and family secrets that emerge (you'll chuckle at one of these), and some great new characters that I hope we'll see again. Keep an eye on Miss Busby!

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