Rehearsed to Death

Name: Rehearsed to Death
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Frank Anthony Polito
ISBN: 9798765077085

Author: Frank Anthony Polito

Series: Domestic Partners in Crime Mystery #2

Narrator: Frank Anthony Polito

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

Award-winning author and playwright Frank Anthony Polito continues his debut cozy mystery series featuring a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses as part of their hit reality show Domestic Partners. Set in suburban Detroit, it's Hart to Hart via HGTV! The perfect combination for fans of home repair and cozy mysteries.

Peter's first play is having its world premiere at Pleasant Woods's community theater. His handsome one and only, JP, has the lead. Rehearsals have begun. And New York City's award-winning, hotshot helmer, Xander Sherwood Deva, is directing. Unfortunately the controlling, arrogant, poison-barbed, egomaniacal diva has everyone on edge. No wonder he finally pushes someone over it . . .

Xander is found strangled to death in the same extra-long, imported cashmere scarf he's been brandishing like a boa ever since he arrived. In the name of making art he's burned a lot of bridges and made a lot of enemies but which one wanted to bring down the curtain on him?

As they say in the theater: the show must go on. But not before amateur sleuths Peter and JP become Domestic Partners in Crime and try to solve this deadly real-life drama ahead of opening night.

About Frank Anthony Polito

Frank Anthony Polito is an award-winning author and playwright. His novels include the Lambda Award-winning Drama Queers!, Lost in the '90s, The Spirit of Detroit, and Band Fags!, among many others, and his plays have been produced around the country. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon and a BFA in theatre from Wayne State. After growing up in the Detroit suburbs, Polito lived in New York City for eighteen years before moving to Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, with his partner Craig Bentley and their two dogs. They live in a 1924 Craftsman Colonial that they purchased on HGTV's House Hunters and have been renovating together since 2013.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on May 31, 2023

This review can also be found at [URL not allowed] I had a great time with this book! I liked the first book in this series quite a bit so I was eager to see what might happen in this second installment. When I noticed that the audiobook was available from my local library, I decided to......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 03, 2025

I received this as a Goodreads giveaway. !! A fun romp at the theater. I really like the setting since I haven’t been to Detroit . I don’t like things that are set on stages, but this was fun.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on August 04, 2023

This book is disappointing. I read the first in this series, and can say it’s much improved but ultimately, I still can’t recommend it. It’s best, I think, to consider this book like a gay murder mystery episode of Scooby Doo. The tone and characters behave in ways that you’d expect in the cartoon an......more

Goodreads review by Raquel on May 02, 2023

If you liked the first in the series, you will enjoy this one. I love a mystery set in the theatre. Frank Anthony Polito knows the theatre world and that comes through in this quozy.......more

Goodreads review by Lori on May 22, 2023

In short: This book features a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses in suburban Detroit as part of their hit reality show Domestic Partners. In this installment they are rehearsing for a play at the local theatre when the director is found dead. What I liked: 🎭 Mystery set against the......more