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Dead Man Waltzing (A Ballroom Dance Mystery #2)
by
Ella Barrick (Goodreads Author)
When Corinne Blakely, a grande dame of international ballroom dancing, is poisoned, the dance community - including champion dancer Stacy Graysin - is left in an uproar. Corinne was penning a tell-all memoir, but now her secrets might well remain hidden, perhaps just as the killer intended.
The victim's dance card was full of people who might have wanted her silenced, if no...more
The victim's dance card was full of people who might have wanted her silenced, if no...more
Mass Market Paperback, 287 pages
Published
June 5th 2012
by Signet
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“Dead Man Waltzing” (A Ballroom Dance Mystery) by Ella Barrick
Dance company Graysin Motion is a busy place run by dancing champion Stacy Graysin. Teaching Old Town Alexandria, Virginians how to cha-cha, tango, waltz and meringue among other dances. Maurice Goldberg, co-teacher and former champion himself is late for class. Turns out he was lunching with Corinne Blakley when she collapsed. He had to bring her to the ER.
Enter Detective Lissy—Stacy’s less than favorite person—who asks her if she kn...more
Dance company Graysin Motion is a busy place run by dancing champion Stacy Graysin. Teaching Old Town Alexandria, Virginians how to cha-cha, tango, waltz and meringue among other dances. Maurice Goldberg, co-teacher and former champion himself is late for class. Turns out he was lunching with Corinne Blakley when she collapsed. He had to bring her to the ER.
Enter Detective Lissy—Stacy’s less than favorite person—who asks her if she kn...more
The professional ballroom dance community misses several steps when they learn that Corinne Blakely has been poisoned. She was publishing a tell-all memoir that included several secrets of her former dance partners. Was she killed to stop publication of the book that told several people moves both on and off the dance floor?
Stacy gets involved when Maurice, one of her dance instructors and one of several of Corrine's ex-husbands, becomes the prime suspect. Hopefully Stacy knows all the right ste...more
Stacy gets involved when Maurice, one of her dance instructors and one of several of Corrine's ex-husbands, becomes the prime suspect. Hopefully Stacy knows all the right ste...more
I didn't think this book was as good as the sries first. I will still recommend it to cozy readers, but don't expect it to be be as tidy and intriguing as the first.
The characters are all acoounted for, and their developement is limited. I guess the disappointment is that for a series supposedly about ballroom dance, very little was about the world of ballroom dancing. The main character, Stacy, was off everywre, all over the place. No wonder she is having monetary problems and worries about kee...more
The characters are all acoounted for, and their developement is limited. I guess the disappointment is that for a series supposedly about ballroom dance, very little was about the world of ballroom dancing. The main character, Stacy, was off everywre, all over the place. No wonder she is having monetary problems and worries about kee...more
This was an ok book. It was an easy read cozy mystery. There were many quirky characters, and many different suspects of the murder. I think maybe if this had more humor or maybe if I was more interested in ballroom dancing then I would have liked this book better. I also wasn't interested in any of the subplots. I also had a hard time believing that Stacey could so easily get answers out of people by just nosy-ing around, because I know if she approached me with questions I probably wouldn't be...more
The Grande Dame of the ballroom, Corrinne Blakely, has had a career in dancing for close to fifty years. She's seen, heard and experienced it all. Now she wants to tell all . . . .but, someone out there will do what it takes to keep that from happening. Unfortunately, when she keeled over at lunch, her dining companion was Maurice Goldberg, one of the instructors at Graysin Motion Dance Studio.
The studio owner, Stacy Graysin, is sad to hear of Corrine's passing but when she hears it was murder a...more
When Corinne Blakely, wealthy doyenne of the ballroom dancing world, dies suddenly, a friend of Stacy's is the main police suspect. Since Stacy is sure that he's innocent, she drags her lawyer sister and the handsome Latin American co-owner of her studio into an investigation of the case. While there's a large sum of money for Corinne's non-too-happy family to fight over, Stacy is convinced that the true motive lies in the tales that Corinne was prepared to tell in her proposed memoir.
This was a charming cozy murder mystery set in the Washington, D.C. area. A famous ballroom dancer suddenly dies leaving rumors of her pending memoirs to be published.
Our sleuth, Anastasia Graysin's employee/friend, Maurice not only was the dancer's one time husband, but Maurice was also eating with the lady as she was poisoned.
There is a flood of suspects. Stacy seeks to solve the crime before she loses Maurice to the system.
Our sleuth, Anastasia Graysin's employee/friend, Maurice not only was the dancer's one time husband, but Maurice was also eating with the lady as she was poisoned.
There is a flood of suspects. Stacy seeks to solve the crime before she loses Maurice to the system.
Cute book but has several major flaws in my opinion. The guilty party was obvious from the character's first appearance in the book----and at the end the heroine marched right into the murderer's house for a confrontation. There was no major blow up but there could have been. Not wise.
The danger of theme cozies is if you aren't that interested in the theme, the book suffers a bit in the reading. I'm not a fan of dancing - I don't dislike dancing, but I don't love it, so the theme of this book keeps me from getting lost in the story. It's a good book and I'd recommend it to any cozy mystery lover who would find ballroom dancing an interesting theme. The mystery is good; lots and lots of suspects with opportunity. I felt the ending was a nice departure from the cliche endings i...more
When ballroom dancing grande dame Corrine Blakely is murdered, the police zero in on her ex-husband Maurice. After all, he was having lunch with her at the time. But Stacy Graysin knows her friend couldn't have done it. Can she prove it? The plot could have used another twist or two, but it was still a fun twirl with one of the funniest scenes I've read in a while and a climax that really brought the emotion.
My full review at Epinions.
My full review at Epinions.
I like that in this series it's not so easy to figure out the murder, it's more of a process of elimination thing, but I felt once the murderer was revealed it was very anticlimactic because they didn't fully confess, and then it was a cop out at the end. Stacy is not a very sympathetic or likeable character for the average cozy reader, it is very annoying to hear her refer to herself as being a hot blonde and how she is always dieting and watching her weight. I guess that's the nature of the da...more
I didn't enjoy this second book in the series quite as much as the first one. Perhaps because the murdered character never actually made an appearance in the book. The accused is the main character's beloved employee, but it just didn't seem as compelling of a story.
Lots of characters to follow.
Cute series.
I read the first book in this series and enjoyed it so was looking forward to this one. The story was okay but moved really slow to me. Would read a bit and set down and repeat. Actually read 4 other books before I could get this one finished. I do like the characters in the book but they need more energy to them. Holding out hope for the next one that will be coming out.
This was the second book in the series, and I thought it was an enjoyable read. The mystery was a tough one to solve, with plenty of suspects to keep you guessing, and the ending had a bit of a surprise. I quite like the main character of Stacy, and even though I don’t know much about ballroom dancing, the book still held my interest. This was a fun and entertaining read and I look forward to the next installment.
Yet another good cozy this month! I really liked the first one in this series, and this one was every bit as good. I enjoy the ballroom dancing stuff and always wished I were a dancer myself. A good mystery and I'm really getting to like these characters. RECOMMEND!
A light, enjoyable, cosy mystery.
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Ella Barrick grew up in the South, but has since migrated West. She spent some time working for Uncle Sam and taught English at the college level before turning her hand to writing mysteries.
Ella and her husband took exactly two ballroom dancing lessons on the quickstep before Ella’s bruised ankles and crushed feet forced them to retire. (Her husband is a wonderful guy, but he doesn’t have a singl...more
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Ella and her husband took exactly two ballroom dancing lessons on the quickstep before Ella’s bruised ankles and crushed feet forced them to retire. (Her husband is a wonderful guy, but he doesn’t have a singl...more
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