Her Deadly Mischief (Baroque Mystery)

Beverle Graves Myers
Poisoned Pen Press (2009)
ISBN 9781590582510
Reviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views (5/09)


I wasn’t sure at first that I would enjoy this book; however, it was very captivating and full of exciting “who done it” pages. Tito Amato is a lead singer at the Teatro San Marco and is excited about his life and performances. That is until one night when he witnesses a woman fall from a box from the fourth tier at the opera.

After all has been investigated, he makes it his mission to find out about the woman and the masked man who shoved her. He starts becoming late for his rehearsals and his wife cannot understand his involvement in solving the murder mystery.

The book is full of interesting characters starting with the dead woman’s servant Pamarino- a dwarf who is madly in love with the dead woman. Messer Grande is the investigator who enlists the help of Tito in solving the mystery he already knows the answers to.

As you read through this fast-paced book, you will visit towns and ghettos that are so colorful in their description you can smell the river as you travel on a gondola. Just when you think you have solved the murder mystery another suspect comes into play in “Her Deadly Mischief” by Beverle Graves Myers.

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