num_pages: 330
description: Somebody is murdering the SongbirdsA modern Giallo Everson's homage to the stylish Italian mystery thrillers. Somebody is murdering the Songbirds. When Eve Springer arrives in Belgium to study with the world famous Prof. Ernest Von Klein at The Eyrie an exclusive music conservatory its the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But that dream is soon to become a nightmare.When the star of the schools piano program is strangled with a piano wire the only clue to the killer is a grainy picture of the victim during her final moments mouth wide and screaming posted on the girls own Facebook account alongside a classic music video. What does it mean? Eve soon finds herself taking the girls place as the enclaves star pupil in line for a coveted scholarship and a new member of the famed jazz combo the Songbirds.When Eve is drugged and another Songbird murdered at a campus party she suddenly finds herself on the list of suspects. Another picture is posted online of the victim in her final moments and this time Eve is sure the hands around the girls throat are hers! Could she have killed the girl while under the influence of whatever someone had slipped in her drink? The police and others at the Eyrie are suspicious; the murders began when she arrived. Her new boyfriend Richard insists that she could not be the killer. But who would want the Songbirds dead? One of the other Songbirds like Gianna the snarky sax player who seems to hate everyone? Or Philip the creepy building caretaker and occasional night watchman? Or could it be Prof. Von Klein himself who seems very handy with a camera and has a secret locked room behind his office where the light always seems to be on after dark?Whoever it is Eve knows she needs to figure it out. Because when a dead canary is left as a bloody message on the keys of her piano she knows her own life may be in deadly danger.
language: English
title: Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds
publisher: Flame Tree Press