Played to Death: A Scott Drayco Mystery (Scott Drayco Mystery Series Book 1)

A body in a rundown Opera House. Simmering resentment in a small Virginia coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret.

Former
piano prodigy-turned FBI agent Scott Drayco is still suffering
nightmares from his last case as a private consultant. To add insult to
injury, he's bequeathed a rundown Opera House in Cape Unity, a
down-on-its-luck seaside village where vacation homes were once a
playground for the rich. His hopes for a quick sale are dashed when a
new client with dreams of his own redemption is murdered in the Opera
House, the letter “G” mockingly carved into his chest.

Partnering
with a wary Sheriff, Drayco has to navigate a maze of illicit love
affairs and hostility over immigration and coastal development as they
try to catch the killer. But Drayco's confidence in his decision-making
abilities is shaken by the flirtatious and lonely wife of a town
councilman who attempts to seduce him, despite the fact she had an
affair with the victim. Then, one mystery turns to two, as Drayco learns
of a famous Polish pianist whose last concert was at the Opera House
fifty years ago—and who was murdered after returning home.

Drayco gets pulled into a tangled scheme of jealousy and
betrayal that reaches across the Atlantic into some of the darkest days
of human history. But will he be able to untangle the web before the
tensions in Cape Unity explode into more violence and he becomes the
next victim?