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    An Act of Villainy

    By Ashley Weaver

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    Walking through London's West End after a night at the theatre, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into old friends, the wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway and his wife Georgina. When Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing, Amory readily accepts.
    However, she is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the lead role. Furthermore, the casual invitation is not what it seems-he admits to Amory and Milo that Flora has been receiving threatening letters, and he needs their help in finding the mysterious sender. Despite Amory's conflicting feelings-not only does she feel loyalty to Georgina, but the disintegration of the Holloways' perfect marriage seems to bode ill for her own sometimes delicate relationship-her curiosity gets the better of her, and she begins to make inquiries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9780749023188
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    Ashley Weaver

    ASHLEY WEAVER is the Technical Services Coordinator at the Allen Parish Libraries in Oberlin, Louisiana. Weaver has worked in libraries since she was 14; she was a page and then a clerk before obtaining her MLIS from Louisiana State University. She is the author of Murder at the Brightwell, Death Wears a Mask, and A Most Novel Revenge. Weaver lives in Oakdale, Louisiana.

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    • 3/5
      I liked the story, I pretty much like the series, but what I don't like and took one star off for was Armory's continual bitchy snide remarks to Milo about his past indiscretions. She seriously still never let's go nor misses an opportunity to let it go.... In this one manner she is a miserable rag and it wears me out!A friend of the Ames is producing & directing a play, he is also having an affair with the leading lady, who is receiving threatening letters.Milo & Amory are asked to investigate, but the actress refuses to call the police in. All the actors have something to hide, the leading man is in love with the actress, there is something going on with the 2nd lead male, & the understudy is ugly. During the gala which takes place immediately after the opening night performance Amory finds the actress on stage face to the curtains, hung dead by her neck.This was a n interesting plot, one I have never come across before....
    • 3/5
      Amory Ames and her husband Milo find themselves involved with actors and the theatre when investor and writer Gerard Holloway invite them to view his latest play. They are asked to investigate the threatening letters that the leading actress Flora Bell has been receiving accumulating in a threat to kill her,
      An enjoyable mystery, well-written, but I find it difficult to like the main couple in these stories.
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