Killjoy — Ann Cleeves

FOR SOME REASON PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE AFRAID OF GABRIELLA PASTON.

Is it because she's too beautiful, too talented, too self-confident? In the middle of rehearsals for her first big show at the arts center, eighteen-year-old Gabriella is murdered...and it seems to Inspector Stephen Ramsay I that people are now more afraid of her than ever.

For Gabriella turns out to have been not only gifted and gorgeous but ruthless. Not everyone--not even her own grandmother--is devastated by her loss. And Ramsay himself is distracted from his investigation by the unexpected return of his first love. Prue Bennett, now Gabriella's landlady, still has the power to charm.

In a community where teen crime is becoming a dangerous problem, the murder is just one more headache for the police. But the stage is already being set