Mystery

Dying to Dance

A Maddie Fitzpatrick Dance Mystery

by Kate O'Connell

Description

Noted Argentine Tango choreographer Maddie Fitzpatrick returns to her hometown of Pembroke to teach at a local dance school after a televised dance fiasco upsets her career. No sooner there, but Maddie finds herself thrown into another unsettling situation when one of the school’s students dies suddenly and horrifically during a dance class––apparently from an allergic reaction. When Maddie’s first love––now a local detective––arrives on the scene to investigate, she believes that her new life can’t possibly get anymore complicated. Of course, she’s wrong, because she soon begins to realize that the victim’s demise is anything but an accident. She decides to investigate the circumstances of the woman’s life––and death––on her own, to clear the dance school and its charming director Peter of any adverse publicity. To do this, she has to figure out how eager real estate agents, eccentric dance teachers, unstable nurses, and several popular dance students fit into the mystery. Will more people succumb before Maddie puts all the clues together and discovers why they are DYING TO DANCE?

Dying to Dance

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Author Biography

Kate O’Connell spent her youth in Europe, her teen years in northern New Jersey and her twenties in New Mexico, before moving back to Europe and then on to South Africa. To this day, her accent comes from an amalgamation of those places and no one can tell where she comes from. She likes it that way. She also likes to consider herself a librarian, though she has no formal qualifications, compelling the local librarians to keep a sharp eye on her. She does, however, have a lot of education. She received her BA in Theatre and History, her MA in Dance History and Criticism, and her MPhil in Dance Studies.


 


Kate’s research focused on the Argentine Tango community in London and while learning about the dance, she started teaching and performing. She still teaches classes and workshops and occasionally pushes the living room furniture aside so that she and her husband can dance.


Kate writes novels now. She also swims daily in the Atlantic Ocean and is tortured weekly by her Pilates instructor, and she has made it her mission to teach her daughter everything she knows about making room on the dance floor.


You can visit Kate at her website: www.dyingtodance.com.

Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Cozy Cat Press
  • Publication Date 2014
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781939816405
  • Publication Country or regionUnited States
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 14.95 USD
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Page size6

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