Final Curtain

By Mignon F. Ballard

Book Overview

Aspiring actress Martha Virginia Brown was only twenty when she died in an apparent fall while appearing in summer stock in the North Carolina foothills. Now, fifty years later, her great niece and namesake, Ginger Cameron, arrives at the quaint tavern in Fiddler's Glen to unearth the forgotten details of her relative's death, and to escape the menacing overtures of a former boyfriend.

According to those who knew her, Martha Brown was beautiful, talented, and full of life. She was also blatantly outspoken, and there are too many unanswered questions about the way she died. Some say it was an accident. Some say she was pushed. Others say she was a victim of the music played upon a fiddle by the ghost of a Confederate soldier--Lucifer's fiddle. But Martha's murderer proves much too real to be an apparition.

Ginger soon learns the killer will stop at nothing to silence those who would expose the secret kept hidden for so many years, and she seems doomed to relive the fate of her late aunt. However, she doesn't count on the assistance of her aunt's sprightly spirit to lead her to the person responsible for her death, or on the love she has found in this unlikely place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933523697
• ISBN13: 9781933523699
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Bella Rosa Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

1930 melodrama

If you are looking for Augusta Goodnight - she's not here. There is a ghost - a sweet ghost. There is murder most foul, but not offensive. There is a love story, an old home, mystery and a dusty attic. There is a wonderful story here and you won't be disappointed. You will feel, when you enter the story, as if you are cocooned in 1930 drama. It is a pleasant place to be and hard to leave. Ms. Ballard is a skillful author and I enjoyed the book - but I miss Augusta.

great read and wonderful author

Mignon F. Ballard is the queen of mystery and suspense. She keeps you on the edge of your seat until the last word on the last page.