Four Steps to Death

by Diana Ramsay

Fancy footwork is required of dance instructor Maggie Tramayne when she finds her friend Nina skewered with one of her own kitchen utensils, and she must sidestep both the police and the killer's next culinary surprise in order to survive

Genres: Mystery

281 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Hemavathy DM Suppiah-Devi]

Brilliant. One of the best whodunits I've read in a long time. Ramsay does an excellent job of drawing the reader into elegance and the glamour of the world of ballet, and of the intrigue and emotions that reside in its dancers, and the balletone. I could not put it down. And the ending when it came, almost caught me by surprise (though the reader is given a hint when Maggie is asked if she intends to be in the studio on a particular afternoon near the end of the book).

Ramsay also possesses an incredible vocabulary, and the book was a sheer delight to read for that reason alone, if not for any others, as I think it would be for fellow logophiles.