With a Kiss I Die

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When former cop turned theater manager Edwina "Sully" Sullivan learns a production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by her close friend Dimitri, is in trouble, she rushes to Boston to provide her expertise. In With A Kiss I Die by J.A. Hennrikus, Sully learns the previous director had some weird thoughts about the production and she hopes she can help. (With a Kiss I Die will be published on April 8 by Midnight Ink.)

While she is in Boston, she hopes to nudge along the grant proposal for her local theater. At an event in Boston she meets  Jerry and Mimi Cunningham, executives for the Century Foundation, the grantor organization. The brief introduction goes well and Sully is invited to a more formal meeting, possibly soon to discuss her grant proposal.

As the evening progresses a very loud argument erupts first between Babs Allyn and her husband Hal Maxwell, then between Babs, the Boston theater director, and Mimi Cunningham, culminating with Mimi tossing a drink into Babs' face. It's downhill from there as Mimi is found dead in an nearby alley the next day and Babs has disappeared. Hal insists Babs has gone to their house on the Cape and he has been in touch with her via phone.

As much as she would like to stay out of this case, she is drawn in when she learns her ex-husband is a suspect. Gus Knight had been reviewing the books at the Cunningham Foundation and there appeared to be some discrepancies.

I enjoyed this book, but I wish I had read the first in the series because there was a good bit of back story I missed. I still enjoyed the character and the mystery. Hope to read more in this series.