Ebook The Five Deaths of Seven Songbirds - Flame Tree Publishing

Someone is murdering songbirds…

Modern Giallo, Everson's homage to stylish Italian crime thrillers. Someone is killing Songbirds. When Eve Springer arrives in Belgium to study under world-renowned Prof. Ernesto Von Klein at the exclusive music conservatory The Eyrie, it is a lifelong dream come true. But this dream soon turns into a nightmare.

When the star of the school piano program is strangled with a piano wire, the only clue for the killer is a grainy photo of the victim in her last moments, with her mouth wide open and screaming, posted on her own Facebook account alongside classical music videos. What does it mean? Eve soon takes the girl’s place as the star pupil of the enclave, in line for a coveted scholarship and a new member of the famous jazz band, The Songbirds.

When Eve is drugged, and another Songbird is murdered at a campus party, she suddenly finds herself on the suspect list. Another photo has been posted online of the victim in her final moments, and this time Eve is sure that the hands around the girl’s throat… belong to her! Could she have killed the girl while under the influence of what someone slipped into her drink? The police and others in the enclave are suspicious; the murders began when she arrived. Her new boyfriend Richard insists he can’t be the killer. But who would want the Songbirds dead? One of the remaining Songbirds, like Gianna, the malicious saxophonist who seems to hate everyone? Or Philip, the terrifying building superintendent and occasional night watchman? Or perhaps Prof. Von Klein himself, who seems very handy with a camera and has a secret locked room behind his office, where the lights always seem to be on after dark?

Whoever it is, Eve knows she must figure it out. Because when a dead canary is left as a bloody message on her piano keys, she realizes her own life may be in deadly danger.

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