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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment which costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes. Of course, there’s also the matter of the dead...
Author
Series
Summer Hill novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The first novel of New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux's breathtaking new series set in Summer Hill, a small town where love takes center stage against the backdrop of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Enter Elizabeth Bennet. Chef Casey Reddick has had it up to here with men. When she arrives in the charming town of Summer Hill, Virginia, she leaves behind a demanding boss at a famous D.C. restaurant and a breakup with a boyfriend jealous...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Peter's first play is having its world premiere at Pleasant Woods's community theater. His handsome one and only, JP, has the lead. Rehearsals have begun. And New York City's award-winning, hotshot helmer, Xander Sherwood Deva, is directing. Unfortunately the controlling, arrogant, poison-barbed, egomaniacal diva has everyone on edge. No wonder he finally pushes someone over it... Xander is found strangled to death in the same extra-long, imported...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave. The bones indicate foul play--and are much too recent to be an archeological find. Despite the unexpected turn of events, China keeps her cool and attends the opening of the new community theater. But the party abruptly ends when the elderly Jane Obermann shoots a local handyman in the name...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For years, following an early first marriage, Daisy Andalusia remained single and enjoyed the company of men on her own terms, making the most of her independent life. Now in her fifties, she has remarried and settled into a quieter life in New Haven, Connecticut. She's committed to a job she loves: organizing the clutter of other people's lives. Her business soon leads her to a Yale project studying murders in small cities. While her husband, an...
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings. Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amy gets roped into performing in the Ruby Lake, NC community theater's new musical after some cast members get injured by mysterious mishaps. The production seems plagued by bad luck, but events turn tragic when a member of the company is found murdered in a locked dressing room.
10) Sandcastle Beach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
To save her tiny, beloved community theater, Maya Mehta desperately needs to win Matchmaker Bay's new business grant, forcing her to compete against local bar owner Benjamin Lawson, who is also her annoyingly hot arch nemesis.
11) Staged 4 murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sophie "Phee" Kimball wants to get some work done at her private investigation company in Arizona--and she's distracted already by her old crush, who's arriving from Minnesota to join the staff. The last thing she needs is constant updates from her mom on the local production of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap." But someone's playing the role of the killer for real.
13) Not my Romeo
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A small-town librarian finds her Valentine's Day blind date, professional quarterback Jack Hawke, showing up in places she least expects, including the community theater where she's playing Juliet to his Romeo.
14) Golden threads
Author
Language
English
Description
Hoping to hide and start over in a small Virginia town, a woman joins a community theater group where she meets a mysterious man looking for answers.
Author
Series
Theater cop mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
When retired cop and current theater manager Edwina 'Sully' Sullivan goes to Boston to help with a troubled production of Romeo and Juliet, she also ends up working to clear her ex-husband of suspicion in the murder a socialite in Boston Garden.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For thirty years Liz has played the part of Mrs. Thomas Lightsey, exemplary pastor's wife and mother. When Thomas suddenly dies, Liz feels shock, grief, and, to her surprise, the siren song of freedom. Despite the resistance of her daughter, Liz lands arole at the community theater. Inspired by new friends and the character she plays, she explores life's possibilities, including a relationship with her leading man. Just when Liz thinks she might...
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