- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur; 1 edition (Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312280343
- ISBN-13: 978-0312280345
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.8 x 2.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,584,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A fantstic new mystey series is born
6 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover
Not that many people start life anew at fifty-four, but Claire Gray is one person who did. Claire was once the toast of Broadway as an award winning director and playwright, but relocates to Palm Desert to manage the Desert Arts College Theater. Mega-millionaire Glenn Yeats recruited the most talented people including Claire to chair the departments at the school.
At a welcoming party hosted by Glenn, Claire meets and hits it off with fellow chair Paul Huron and his wife Jodie. When Paul needs a ride from airport, Claire volunteers to take him. Upon arriving at his home, they find Jodie dead with her valuable wedding ring missing. Claire becomes obsessed with the case and soon proves quite competent at finding clues; She is so good the lead investigator officially adds her to his team.
While it seems implausible for a police officer to allow a civilian to help in a homicide case, the heroine's mindset and actions will make believers out of readers. Michael Craft provides an intense tale with appealing characters that the audience will want back in future novels. DESERT AUTUMN appears to be the first novel on what has the potential of being a great series.
Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This is an Excellent book! I can't wait for more!
1 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
Claire is a very well known and respected theater director from New York. After a lot of pressure from a billionaire developer, she agreed to head the theater department at a new theatrical college near Palm Springs. Then, after only two weeks in the desert, a colleague's wife is found murdered. Claire, having directed murder scenes in theater, now has an urge to help solve this murder.
Along the way, Claire meets Tanner, who was initially a suspect, and convinces him to enroll in the new college. Tanner, who is less than half her age, is very anxious to do just that. For an audition, Tanner recited a monologue from a play that Claire wrote. She was very moved. Then they took their relationship to a new level, with a little bump and grind.
Claire works her way through several suspects, and does indeed finally solve the murders. Yes, there was a second murder. There was one person who could have put the pieces together and nailed the murderer sooner, but the murderer searched him out and killed him as well. I was shocked at who the murderer was. I had some suspicions, but was blinded by other possibilities.
This was an excellent first book of a new series. I cannot wait for the next books to come out. I hope to hear more about Tanner, and look forward to hearing about Thad Quatrain as the school opens and classes begin.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An interesting new series from Mr. Craft
16 Feb 2002
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
An interesting start of a new series with the main character a theatre director, introduced in his short novel "Rehearsing" Here Claire Gray, a renown Broadway theatre director comes to Palm Springs to build a theatre program at a new college for the arts built buy a billionaire software magnate geek (can you say Bill Gates anyone?) Anyway, Mr. Crofts skills at narration, story development and complexity are improving with every book. I truly enjoyed this new one since the emphasis was not strictly on gay characters but a healthy mix of gay and straight characters. in many ways the only flaw in the characterizations I found was that the lead character, a woman, is written more like a strong assertive gay man rather than a true woman.
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