Nine Ladies Dying

Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its highly-ranked universities, professional sports teams, esteemed venues for classical music ... and murder.

When Janie, one of Wickham Ballet Company's principal dancers is found dead, dangling from the backstage rafters with a long, decorative scarf wrapped tightly around her neck, her death is ruled a suicide. The company is devastated and still reeling from the loss of four other dancers-including Janie's roommate-who died in a hit-and-run accident just a month before. Shelby, a Corps de Ballet dancer, isn't convinced Janie's death was a suicide. When two more dancers die, this time from food poisoning, Shelby becomes even more certain that her friend didn't take her own life.

With the help of her sister and Janie's understudy, Shelby starts digging up details about the staff and dancers in the company. She's close to coming up with a suspect, but not before another dancer is brutally murdered.

Eight ladies dead.

The killer has grown impatient with Shelby's interference. If she's not careful, she may be the ninth lady to die.