One fell swoop

By David Linzee

Subjects: Women singers, Billionaires, Opera -- Fiction, Fiction, Real estate development -- Fiction, Murder, Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, Women singers -- Fiction, Real estate development, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, Investigation, Opera, Billionaires -- Fiction

Description: "When mezzo-soprano Renata Radleigh stumbles over a corpse on London's Hampstead Heath, she suspects the death has something to do with her brother Don's boss, a billionaire speculator who will go to any lengths to keep his identity secret. Don is acting as his front-man in far-off St. Louis, Missouri, buying up a borderline slum called Parkdale. Don has an apartment in Parkdale and claims he wants to save the neighborhood. He's even having a romance with a local community gardener, the sturdy Hannah. Tipped off by a long-distance call from his girlfriend Renata, Peter Lombardo tails the slippery Don and discovers he really lives in the fashionable Central West End, where he seems to have a more glamorous lover. What is Don up to? Does he know himself, or is he nothing but a patsy who could well pay for his cluelessness with his life, as well as the lives of Renata and Peter?"--