Death Awaits Thee

Puck Bure's meeting with Paul Sandwall in Stockholm is opportune. As the new manager of Drottningholm Palace Theatre, the historic eighteenth century Opera house on the outskirts of the city, he plans to open the season with a performance of Cosi fan tutte. Not only is Mozart's opera to be staged as a climax to the city's summer arts festival, but two celebrities - Danish prima donna Teresa Monrad and her ex- husband, world-famous conductor Prof. Matthew Lemming - are to take part. Tensions behind the scenes revolve around the beautiful yet volatile prima donna and when a macabre murder is committed, puck is drawn into the police investigation. A Swedish crime fiction classic and part of the inspiration behind the new BBC4 drama Crime of Passion.