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Beverle Graves Myers combines a love of Italy, mystery, and opera in her Tito Amato novels featuring an 18th-century singer-sleuth. The latest title in the six-book series is Whispers of Vivaldi. With Joanne Dobson, she has also co-authored Face of the Enemy, a stand-alone mystery set in New York City on the eve of World War II. Beverle and husband Lawrence divide their time between Kentucky and Florida.
<p>*STARRED REVIEW*<br> Set in 1730s Venice, Myers's second baroque mystery skillfully guides the reader past the dangers of fame to the nature of music and love, fulfilling the promise of her well-received debut, Interrupted Aria (2004). At the Teatro San Marco, soprano castrato Tito Amato is struggling with his demotion to lesser roles when the strangled body of Luca Cavalieri, a talented if unscrupulous set designer and painter, turns up in a canal. Suspicion points to his lover, Liya Del'Vecchio, a Jewess whom Tito falls for on sight. When the opera company director asks Tito to investigate Cavalieri's murder, he's only too glad to comply. Accompanied by Augustus Gussie Rumbolt, a younger son of English nobility on the grand tour, he explores the first European ghetto. All foreigners are suspect and restricted in the fading sun of Venetian trading pre-eminence, but onlyJews are locked up at night in the old ironworks. When a rabble-rousing, pseudonymous pamphlet accuses Liya
