The Case of the Casanova Cantor
(2023)(The ninth book in the Augusta McKee Mystery series)
A novel by Susan Moore Jordan
Cincinnati, October 1967 --
Eugene Geller, the handsome and popular Cantor of Rockdale Templelocated in the racially tense Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnatidisappears without a trace during a night of rioting in the long, hot summer of 1967. Was Gene a casualty of the riot? Has he run away with one of his paramours? Or has he been the victim of foul play by his long-suffering wife or an angry ex-lover or a jealous husband?
Augusta McKee, Chair of the Opera Department at the Conservatory and amateur sleuth, is helping her husband, Chief of Detectives Malcolm Mitchell, unravel this mystery. Augusta is also in the midst of planning the Conservatorys spring opera, Mozarts The Magic Flute, a fairy tale of good and evil. Her wish is the operas positive message and its multi-ethnic cast will help return hope and calm to her tense city. But her first-time ethnic casting of lead roles causes her to receive anonymous threatening notesand worse.
Malcolm and the police are close to solving the Geller casebut now Augustas life is in imminent danger. How will they find and stop the person targeting her?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Eugene Geller, the handsome and popular Cantor of Rockdale Templelocated in the racially tense Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnatidisappears without a trace during a night of rioting in the long, hot summer of 1967. Was Gene a casualty of the riot? Has he run away with one of his paramours? Or has he been the victim of foul play by his long-suffering wife or an angry ex-lover or a jealous husband?
Augusta McKee, Chair of the Opera Department at the Conservatory and amateur sleuth, is helping her husband, Chief of Detectives Malcolm Mitchell, unravel this mystery. Augusta is also in the midst of planning the Conservatorys spring opera, Mozarts The Magic Flute, a fairy tale of good and evil. Her wish is the operas positive message and its multi-ethnic cast will help return hope and calm to her tense city. But her first-time ethnic casting of lead roles causes her to receive anonymous threatening notesand worse.
Malcolm and the police are close to solving the Geller casebut now Augustas life is in imminent danger. How will they find and stop the person targeting her?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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