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Agitato
Allegro
by
Patricia Brine
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Category:
Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 0-9687986-2-4
Publisher: Macbee Publishing
Price: $11.00
Cdn; trade paperback
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Book Description:
Molly O’Connor, amateur musician and happily
married mother of three grown children, is present when a body is found in the
inner-city school where she teaches part-time. As Detective Brian Donegan investigates
the murder of the school’s unpopular principal, Molly and her fellow musician and
teacher friend, Tamiko, find themselves telling him all about the interesting people
who work there. Brian encourages them. The more he learns about Driftwood School, the
happier he is that he never attended one like it.
Soon other lives are in danger. Brian must work
quickly to solve more crimes than any school should have to face, and keep Molly from
being the ultimate victim.
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Reviews:
“The parts of Agitato Allegro that I
particularly admired – the classroom scene with the fade-outs to backstory, and the
whisperings of the fellow student, the droning of the prof, and Molly’s thoughts on
his teaching were particularly effective. I admired it for what it accomplished in
informing the reading, while giving real insight into Molly, and recreating the exact
sense of being a student in class. I also admired the deft inclusion of all sorts of
music knowledge. But most of all I was thrilled to experience the insider view of an
orchestra. Of course, I’ve watched orchestras plenty of times, but you made me feel
an orchestra from the inside. On a small scale, it transformed my attitude. And
that’s one of the many things I look for in literature." ~ Lori
White, owner of Belgravia Books and Treasures, Edmonton, Alberta
"The first mystery was just great. For the
last 50 pages I couldn’t put it down until the solution at the end. I loved it and
am eager to start Baffling Bagatelles." ~ Edith Rojas, Buffalo, New York
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