When the town’s most hated diva drops dead, everyone who ever spent five minutes with her is a suspect.
After poison is found in her drink, the production comes to a halt.
When struggling bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Hazel Winslow is offered good money to go undercover in the production and sniff out the killer, she can’t afford to say no.
Fortunately, she has her gossipy best friend Tilly and four-legged fluffball investigator, Watson, to help her.
Unfortunately, murder victim Alice Beaumont collected enemies like ovations.
Nancy, prop master so often humiliated and bullied by Alice, says karma’s finally arrived.
Then there’s Grace, Alice’s jealous understudy, who’s suddenly basking in applause, attention, and the starring role she always wanted
The deeper Hazel digs, the clearer it becomes that Alice’s murder wasn’t random—it was personal.
Now secrets are unraveling, danger is closing in, and the killer is determined to keep their identity a secret… even if it means killing again.









