Synopsis
After a long and successful career as a theater director in Manhatten, fifty-something Claire Gray succumbed to a tempting offer to establish the theater department at the new and very well funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. It has proven to be an exciting opportunity for Claire, but now she's facing the end of her first academic year with a measure of melancholy. Not only is the spring production about to end but her student and clandestine lover, Tanner Griffin, is about to leave school for Hollywood. The person responsible - renowned producer Spencer Wallace - spotted Tanner in an earlier school stage production and signed him to a role in his next film, Photo Flash. Now with the closing performance of the spring production completed, the cast party at Claire's house promises to be a bittersweet affair.
What Claire gets, however, is more than she bargained for when, in the middle of the very crowded soiree, Spencer Wallace turns up dead in Claire's pool. To make it worse, Claire herself is one of the most likely suspects - with means, motive, and opportunity to have committed the deed. But Wallace is a man with a past and a reputation - and there are far more than a handful of people with better reasons to wish him harm. Now, with time running short, it falls to Claire to figure out who is really responsible before someone else gets away with the crime and leaves her holding the bag.
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About the Author
Michael Craft is the author of several novels, two of which were finalists for a Lambda Literary Award, as well as the play Photo Flash. He divides his time between Kenosha, Wisconsin and Palm Springs, California, which is the setting for the Claire Gray novels.
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