Deadly Drama. Jody Holford
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DEADLY DRAMA
Molly glanced to her right and saw that the auditorium was empty. Looking back at the stage, she was surprised to see the house that had been suspended from the ceiling was resting in the middle of the set. Maybe they’d ended with that scene during their last rehearsal.
Molly wasn’t thinking much of anything when she heard the hitch of a breath. Looking from the empty theater seating to the stage again, she heard another sharp intake of breath. She took quiet steps forward, brows scrunched at the sound of uneven breaths. Had she interrupted Magnolia crying? Molly hurried forward, moving around the open door of the hollow house.
A strange, strangled sound left Molly’s mouth and her hands flew to her face, slapping hard against her skin.
Judd, the custodian she’d met a few nights back, was leaning over Magnolia’s too-still body. Molly’s heart tried to beat out of her chest as she realized the house was sitting at a slight angle. Worse, she saw why. Magnolia’s feet were jutting out from bottom of the house, the rest of her body inside. It was a horrifying image of life imitating art, the house on top of the Wicked Witch of the West. Or, Britton Bay, in this case…
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Deadly Drama
A Britton Bay Mystery
Jody Holford
LYRICAL UNDERGROUND
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First Electronic Edition: August 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-5161-1005-6 (ebook)
ISBN-10: 1-5161-1005-6 (ebook)
First Print Edition: August 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-5161-1006-3
ISBN-10: 1-5161-1006-4
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“All the world’s a stage.”
—William Shakespeare