Graves's mystery plotting received compliments from critics, as did her out-of-the-ordinary hero and colorful setting.

When Tito's friend Felice Ravello, also a castrato, is accused of the killing, jailed, and threatened with execution Tito and assorted helpers work frantically to find the real perpetrator and clear Felice. Interrupted Aria, set in 1731, shows Tito joining a Venetian opera company whose star female singer, Adelina Belluna, is subsequently murdered by poisoning during a performance. The protagonist of Interrupted Aria: The First Baroque Mystery, and Painted Veil: The Second Baroque Mystery, is Tito Amato, a castrato-a castrated male with a soprano voice-opera singer in eighteenth-century Venice. The novels in her 'Baroque Mystery' series reflect Myers' interest in opera, which has fascinated her since she saw a marionette production of Rigoletto at age nine.

SIDELIGHTS: Writing mysteries is a second career for Beverle Graves Myers, who began to pursue her longheld ambition after retiring from her psychiatry practice. Painted Veil: The Second Baroque Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press (Scottsdale, AZ), 2005.Ĭontributor of short mystery stories to periodicals, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and anthologies, including Derby Rotten Scoundrels, Dime, and Who Died in Here? Interrupted Aria: The First Baroque Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press (Scottsdale, AZ), 2004. MEMBER: Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Historical Novel Society, Short Mystery Fiction Society. Education: Attended University of Louisville received medical degree.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-Poisoned Pen Press, 6962 E.

Painted Veil by Beverle Graves Myers