Boston's grandest vaudeville palace is finally waking up — and so is something inside it.
When Claire Rollins and her partners, Nicole and Robby, bring their Food and History show to the newly restored Empress Theatre, it's a dream assignment with a glittering reopening gala, a forgotten supper club with recipes to die for, and their friend playing piano on a stage that's been dark for forty years.
Then someone is found dead beneath the fly gallery — and the police say the “accident” was anything but.
As Claire's psychic senses stir, she keeps catching a thread of gardenia perfume and a piano melody that stops mid-phrase. The deeper Claire digs, the more certain she becomes that someone in the theater today is guarding a secret worth killing for.
With her fiancé, Detective Ian Fuller, her loyal friends, and two very perceptive Corgis at her side, Claire must untangle two crimes nearly a century apart — before the curtain rises on one more tragedy.