"The dance company is booked to perform on a cruise and Lindy keeps finding bodies"

This was the first book I've read in this series and I plan to read many more.

Lindy Graham-Haggerty is the rehearsal director for the Jeremy Ash Dance Company. The company is hired to perform on a small cruise over New Year's being offered by Cameron Tyler. At first Lindy declines attending because she doesn't want to be away from her husband Glen over New Year's. Plus their son Cliff would be home from the holidays and even though he would spend most of the time with his friends, she wanted to be home to see him as much as possible.

Then Glen gets sent to Paris to work over the holidays and Cliff heads on a ski trip with friends. So, Lindy agrees to go. She shares a cabin with Biddy McFee, the company's business manager. David Beck, rock star, is their neighbor across the hall. Suzette Howard is in charge of the Stars of the Metropolitan Opera who will also be performing. Her daughter Dede is traveling with her.

Things start happening when they arrive. When Suzette sees Danny Ross and Adelaide Kyle, the married cabaret act, arrive with their son Richard, she freezes in place. Lindy can't figure out what that was about. Then the first night out, Suzette says Danny Ross was murdered and pushed down the stairs. Nobody is at the bottom of the stairs, and Danny Ross is asleep in bed. Lindy isn't sure what to think.

David Beck is another strange person. He appears to have multiple personalities -- man, child, and rock star.

Then there is a dead body at the bottom of the stairs. But, Cameron Tyler insists on telling everyone (even Lindy) that he just had a concusion and was flown to a nearby hospital. Lindy knows this can't be true; she saw him -- his neck was obviously broken.

More things continue to happen. There's another murder. Lindy befriends David and they begin to try to sort out what is happening.

I highly recommend this book. The dance company characters are just that, characters and Ms. Freydont has done a great job in building each one. They work well together, too.

The cruise as the setting is terrific as well. All the players are confined to a ship. It makes it a little easier to investigate.

Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted October 5, 2003