Murder of the Maestro is the sixth installment in Anna Celeste Burke entertaining Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery series. Ms. Burke is a very talented author and her descriptive writing always makes me feel like I’m there, feeling the ocean breezes, enjoying the antics of Georgie’s fur babies, and participating in the action as the mystery unfolded. The mystery is well plotted, the characters well rounded and affable, and the book has enough suspects, twists and turns, and red herrings to make it hard to put the book down and difficult to figure out whom the killer is. This is a steadily paced, clean cozy mystery featuring no gratuitous sex, violence, or adult language. Ms. Burke provides enough background information that this book can be read as a standalone. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading a well-crafted cozy mystery.
Georgie Shaw’s boss, Maximillian “Max” Marley, calls her at the crack of dawn worried that his friend, Dave Rollins, has gone missing or worse. Until his recent retirement, Dave, who’s in his seventies and is a master musician and composer, was the Chief Creative Officer of Marvelous Marley World’s Music Group. Lost Hills’ police officers responded to a noise complaint and found the front door unlocked, the house in total disarray, and no sign of Dave. They thought the home might have been ransacked but since there was no blood, they wouldn’t issue an APB even though Max demanded that they did. After hearing Georgie’s side of the conversation, Detective Jack Wheeler, her new husband, immediately got on the phone with the Lost Hills/Malibu Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to see if they would tell him anything since Malibu is out of his jurisdiction. Georgie and Jack had seen Dave the night before at a gala honoring the award winning maestro’s career and retirement. Dave had seemed fine and didn’t mention ant travel plans. Max demands Georgie and Jack immediately go to Dave’s house to meet with Dave’s assistant, Pat Dolan, and the responding police officers. Jack assured Max they were heading to Dave’s house and then quietly told Georgie that a body had been found on the rocks below Dave’s Malibu Cliffs estate. Dave was divorced, with two grown children who adored him, an ex-wife who loved his money, and was known to be a womanizer. The lead investigator, Sgt. Hank Bardot, enlisted Jack and Georgie’s help in questioning persons of interest and Georgie had her competent Executive Assistant, Carol Ripley, do some snooping into the maestro’s past and other people she was interested in learning more about. Both Georgie and Jack are compulsive when it comes to gathering facts and resolving crimes and are determined to identify the maestro’s killer, no matter who it is.
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