Kathleen Marple Kalb: A Fatal Flourish
Ella Shane #6
A Fatal Flourish is the sixth book in Kathleen Marple Kalb’s wonderful series about Ella Shane, a star of the Metropolitan Opera in Gilded Age New York. Ella is a mezzo-soprano who is known for playing male roles, and she is an expert swordswoman, a skill which has proven useful while chasing criminals. She grew up in a tenement on the Lower East Side, as the orphaned daughter of a Jewish mother and an Irish Catholic father. A famous singer discovered what a great voice Ella had and mentored her. Ella has since become a star and married Gil, a British duke, but she has never forgotten her past and is always generous to those less fortunate than she is.