Stage Fright, Adam Carpenter
Stage Fright, Adam Carpenter
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Stage Fright

Author: Adam Carpenter

Narrator: Joel Leslie

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020


Synopsis

All the world's a stage, but in Stage Fright, Hell's Kitchen private detective Jimmy McSwain learns that life upon its wicked boards can be a killer.

The Harold Calloway Theatre on West 47th Street is home to the new play Triskaidekaphobia, and its playwright has been receiving threatening messages. Theater owner and lead producer Wellington Calloway has hired Jimmy to investigate, but it's a case not without its complications. His mother is the head usher there, and Jimmy grew up on its aisles. His ex, Remy, is also the costume designer for the show, a man he hasn't seen in years. Further making his life difficult is the mysterious Seetha Assan, who is connected—albeit tentatively—to the case that forever haunts Jimmy—his own father's murder. She may just have the clue to help him finally solve the cold case.

As Opening Night for the play looms, Jimmy finds himself involved in a nest of egos and personalities, all while seeking to find the missing Seetha. Toss in his on-again, off-again relationship with Captain Francis X. Frisano, and suddenly Jimmy's life is edging toward tragedy. That's when a murderer strikes, and suddenly nothing is pretend anymore. Life on the stage has turned all too real, and all too deadly. Just like on the mean streets of Manhattan.

About Adam Carpenter

Adam Carpenter is the bestselling author of many titles of gay mystery, romance, and intrigue, including the Passport to a Fling Trilogy, the Jimmy McSwain detective series, and the White Pine Firefighters series. Under the name Joseph Pittman, he is the author of the beloved Linden Corners series, including Tilting at Windmills, A Christmas Wish, A Christmas Hope, The Memory Tree, and Chasing Windmills.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Don on June 25, 2020

I don't think that this one is up to par. It read a lot like Hidden Identity with the entitled rich and their disenfranchised children right down to the limo driver. It was interesting to read about the theater with its ins and outs. Welly was a memorable character as was Isolde.......more

Goodreads review by Ulysses on February 19, 2016

Stage Fright By Adam Carpenter Four stars The third of the Jimmy McSwain detective stories brings us back to the familiar streets of Broadway and Hell’s Kitchen in New York, where Jimmy grew up and where his mother has worked as a head usher for twenty years. Jimmy is still haunted by the murder of his......more

Goodreads review by JustJen "Miss Conduct" on February 23, 2016

A review by The Blogger Girls. Jimmy is back on the case, or cases, as is usually the case. :D This time, the owner and long-time friend of the theater where his mother works has hired him to help find out who is behind the mysterious threatening notes being left for the director of the new show that’......more

Goodreads review by JustJen "Miss Conduct" on February 23, 2016

A review by The Blogger Girls. Jimmy is back on the case, or cases, as is usually the case. :D This time, the owner and long-time friend of the theater where his mother works has hired him to help find out who is behind the mysterious threatening notes being left for the director of the new show that’......more

Goodreads review by Julie on March 06, 2016

I am really liking this series. I like the author's voice. Jimmy is smart, no nonsense, and good at doing things on his own. He's solitary but not emotionally detached. The mystery was entertaining, if a bit dramatic at the end when the killer is revealed, but more interesting was the bits and piece......more