Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446609986, Mass Market Paperback)

After a near-lethal confrontation with a serial killer, reporter Alex Bernier is happy to cover a nice, dull story on the hapless attempts to save a grand old theater in her upstate New York college town. But when the body of a long-vanished actress turns up in the wreckage and the theater's advocates start dying off, Alex is at odds with one strange troupe of suspects: a duplicitous former child star, a cadre of Martha Stewart-esque academic wives with nasty secrets, and a vicious mob boss. Again, Alex must play detective, sorting illusion from deadly truth-and, with luck, outwitting a murderer determined to bring the curtain down on her act.