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The first year in academia ends with a bang-up summer session for theater-director-turned-professor Claire Gray with a new production, a new love, and a dead body.
Claire, a former Broadway director and now head of the Theater Department of Desert Arts College in Palm Springs, is running her summer workshop for the first time. The play she will direct is a staged version of the film Rebecca, and playing the female lead is Paige Yeats, daughter of the college’s founder and president, D. Glenn Yeats. While rehearsals for the play go well, not everything else does. Yeats’s second ex-wife, Felicia, storms into town and makes demands for a Santa Barbara home she received as part of the divorce settlement. When she is discovered poisoned in her hotel room, the real show begins as Claire must wade through a long cast of suspects to find her murderer.
Claire, a former Broadway director and now head of the Theater Department of Desert Arts College in Palm Springs, is running her summer workshop for the first time. The play she will direct is a staged version of the film Rebecca, and playing the female lead is Paige Yeats, daughter of the college’s founder and president, D. Glenn Yeats. While rehearsals for the play go well, not everything else does. Yeats’s second ex-wife, Felicia, storms into town and makes demands for a Santa Barbara home she received as part of the divorce settlement. When she is discovered poisoned in her hotel room, the real show begins as Claire must wade through a long cast of suspects to find her murderer.
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My fourth Claire Gray mystery, Desert Summer, ends the chronicle of our heroine’s first full year away from New York, though it does not necessarily end the mysteries she will encounter as she adjusts to her new life in California. There is, however, a "serial subplot" to the four season-titled novels that deals with Claire’s inability, or reluctance, to consider seriously the possibility of long-term happiness with a mate, a partner--a man--and regular readers of the series should take satisfaction in discovering, with Claire, that her prospects have suddenly improved. Desert Summer ends with this issue not fully resolved, but showing considerable promise. And the target of her affections will doubtless surprise readers as much as it surprises her. These developments are played out against two unlikely backdrops--the antifreeze poisoning of a billionaire’s ex-wife and a gay wedding--both in the rarefied surroundings of a luxury mountainside hotel. It’s a summer in paradise that would leave lesser women in need of a good vacation.
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MICHAEL CRAFT is the author of three previous Claire Gray mysteries, most recently Desert Spring, and seven books in the Mark Manning series. One of his novels received the Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award, and two were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. The Illinois native and former Chicago Tribune art director divides his time between Kenosha, Wisconsin and Palm Springs, California.
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