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Title: Lullaby of Murder
Author: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Narrator: Vanessa Johansson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-01-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis' third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer.
Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues is found shot dead in his office - and Julie may have been the last person to see him alive. With a reporter's nose for a scoop, Julie investigates the violent death of one of New York's most infamous - and despised - gossip columnists. But his is not the only troubling death in the past few weeks. A Broadway publicist took his own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge. Could the two deaths be connected? Determined to find out, Julie gets caught in a violent drama of lies, scandal, and deadly revenge that lights up the Great White Way.
Lullaby of Murder is the third novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis' Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in the Life, Scarlet Night, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories "The Puppet" and "Justina" in the collection In the Still of the Night.
Members Reviews:
underbelly of the acting world
Despite the reference to the song "Lullaby of Broadway" in the title "Lullaby of Murder," this third novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis' Julie Hayes series is peopled not with Broadway stars but with the also-rans: Julie herself, an unsuccessful actress turned assistant on a gossip column, Tony Alexander Says..., which is written by a bitter second-tier old tabloid columnist who feels he doesn't get his due respect from the theater world; a fired press agent on the downhill slide, a child actress trying to make a comeback, and a bevy of unemployed and unemployable actors.
Julie and her globetrotting New York Times columnist husband, Geoffrey Hayes, who is much more successful and 15 years her senior, are having dinner as he's preparing to return to Paris. A visibly drunk publicist, Jay Phillips, announces that he's been fired, and hours later he's jumped off a bridge.
But Julie suspects that Jay Phillips' death wasn't actually a suicide. When her boss Tony Alexander is murdered, she believes there's a connection. Julie pursues the case, as much to clear Tony's wife and stepdaughter as in pursuit of justice for a man who was much more flawed than Julie ever knew.
Julie Hayes mysteries are always an amalgam of cozy, noir and the hunger at the heart of every actor, whether ingénue, Broadway superstar, or has-been on the way down and out. But each novel also differs more from each other than the entries usually do in a series (e.g., Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels share a sensibility, as do Elizabeth Peters's Vicky Bliss novels), enough that you wouldn't have been surprised if they were by different authors. I've already begun the final novel in the series,The Habit of Fear (The Julie Hayes Mysteries, 4), which is so different from the previous three that it reads as if it had been written by Lawrence Block rather than the author ofThe Judas Cat.