When dancer and choreographer Kiely Davlin is offered a job featuring six straight men in the cast plus free Tex-Mex food, she signs on the dotted line and dusts off her dance shoes. She knows Bad Business on the Brazos is sure to be a hit. But she doesn't expect a ghost problem. As in the ghost of Don Mueller, the actor who was killed during the last performance of this show fifty years ago. He's flirting with Kiely in a spectral kind of way...and a ghost can make interesting things happen to a girl. Like the gorgeous man on stage with her: Rafe Montez, her secret crush - also known as He Whose Perfect Profile Should Be on a Coin. Kiely's friend Lida thinks Rafe is only acting, but that kiss he and Kiely share in Act II sure feels real to her!
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Kudos for Zebra's Debut line for new romance writers, and bravo for Fitzpatrick, who has written a delightfully humorous and innocent romantic mystery. Kiely Davlin knows she is setting herself up for trouble when she takes the job of choreographer and saloon slut in a revival performance of the melodrama Bad Business on the Brazos at a historic Dallas theater because Bad Business has always been cursed. Three members of the original cast, who performed 100 years ago, may have been murdered. The last performance, 50 years ago, resulted in the shooting death onstage of hunky and talented Don Mueller, who was playing the villain Nick Nefarious. With accidents, a near beheading of the leading man, visits from Don's ghost, and handsome Rafe Montez, who plays Nick, turning up in the darnedest places, it's obvious that everything that can go wrong will. Fitzpatrick has created some charmingly quirky characters and an effectively combined mystery plot with a "clean" happily-ever-after romance. Diana Tixier Herald
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"... a wacky cast of characters who deliver three full acts of matchmaking, mayhem... and murder." -- NY Times Best selling author, Kasey Michaels
**** ...Fine ghost mystery with plenty of humor.... Susan Mobley -- RT Book Club August, 2004
Four stars! ...fine ghost mystery with plenty of humor to keep it light... thoroughly enjoyable visit to the theater! -- Romantic Times Book Club
**** ...Fine ghost mystery with plenty of humor.... Susan Mobley -- RT Book Club August, 2004
Four stars! ...fine ghost mystery with plenty of humor to keep it light... thoroughly enjoyable visit to the theater! -- Romantic Times Book Club
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Flo Fitzpatrick was born in Washington D.C., then became a world traveler while still in diapers. An Army brat, Flo lived in Virginia, Georgia and a castle in France, all before she hit five.
Her first authored work (age four) was science-fiction piece, "The Bug on the Wall." It consisted of two sentences. "There was a bug. It was on the wall."
When she was eight, she went full-tilt boogie and wrote three chapters for what was intended to be a complete novel entitled, "The Skinner Family Goes to Ireland." The plot consisted of the Skinner family heading to Ireland to visit their Aunt Donna who lived on a potato farm and owned a swimming pool. Flo's older brothers, twins, were somewhat skeptical that the Skinners would make it to Ireland via train from New York City across the Atlantic. Her next book (age nine) was more realistic. "The Mystery of the Greenhouse" was written while she was living in El Paso, so the greenhouse setting might have been a buffer against all the tumbleweeds. Sadly, this masterpiece was lost somewhere in transition and travel over the years.
Flo earned a B.F. A. in Dance and an M.A. in Theatre, then spent her years after college shuttling back and forth from Texas to New York performing, teaching and choreographing. During her career in theatre, Flo has played nice ladies (Nellie-South Pacific), not-so-nice ladies (Lily St. Regis-Annie) and dead ladies who weren't very ladylike (three murdered hookers in melodrama Jack the Ripper) The last, she claims, was tough. She spent the first ten minutes of the show "dead", lying on the floor trying not to breathe - or wince from paper wads thrown by enthusiastic audiences. One of her favorite theatrical experiences was playing a variety of characters (bag ladies and Cyndi Lauper-styled tourists) for the Japanese language show NY-Go! which aired on Manhattan cable stations.
Flo returned to writing when a major foot injury kept her home and hobbling. Her second novel with Kensington, Hot Stuff, was the recipient of the Four and Half Star Gold review from RT Reviews and nominated for Best Romantic Suspense of 2005. It's currently under option for film.
She also teaches Dance and Theatre at a parochial school, does a little 'singin' and actin' when possible, and is a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant.
Her latest home project is teaching manners to two-year old, fifty-pound rescue-mutt "Princess Amneris" (Amy) who thinks jumping on stomach (Flo's) and nose-licking (Flo's) at five a.m. is regal behavior. Flo sighs, "It's a process."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Tickles the Funnybone,
This review is from: Ghost Of A Chance (Zebra Debut) (Paperback)
Ghost of a Chance is a fast-paced, witty novel that is sure to entertain. The characters are down-to-earth, and by the end of the novel, they feel like friends (or sometimes annoying co-workers). Flo Fitzpatrick also does a wonderful job of creating the kind of chemestry that really does go on back stage in a theatre production. If you've ever been in a high-school play or community theatre production, you'll love this book!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Breaks all the rules--and boy does it work. Very funny,
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Kiely Davlin really should be going to New York casting cattle calls, but when her friend Lida Rose is hired to direct a remake of a 100-year-old melodrama, Lida Rose cons Kiely into helping--both as an actress and as choreographer. Kiely knows that Lida Rose has matchmaking plans, but Lida Rose always has matchmaking plans and there's no way Kiely is moving back to Dallas permanently. Still, Lida Rose needs a favor and a paying job sounds like a great way to spend the summer.
Once in Dallas, Kiely discovers that Lida Rose wasn't kidding about the sexy men on the stage--all of them apparently straight. The sexiest of them all is Rafe Montez--who plays the villain and who just might have been typecast--what, exactly, is he doing all that snooping for? Did I say the sexiest? Well, that doesn't include the ghost of the former villain, shot dead in the theater on opening night half a century before, the last time the play was run. That ghost seems interested in Kiely, which would be nice if he wasn't quite so dead--and he didn't need to warn her so often that something terrible was about to happen. Author Flo Fitzpatrick combines a strong chick-lit and humor feel with paranormal elements and romance to delive a strong story. Her writing kept me smiling as Kiely stumbled from misadventure to misadventure, the play got in worse and worse trouble, and interfering owners, her friend Lida Rose, and curious newspaper reporters glommed onto the so-called curse the play labors under. Fitzpatrick clearly knows and loves the theater and dance, and these elements add richness and texture to the novel. GHOST OF A CHANCE was a surprisingly mature novel for a first-time novelist. Fitzpatrick doesn't mind breaking the rules (how many times are authors told to stay away from the theater, to keep the hero and heroine on the page at all times, and to definitely ensure that the heroine doesn't do evil things like drink?), but her rulebreaking adds up to a really superior novel. Well done--I'll look forward to reading her next book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Full disclosure: I love Flo!,
By Kate Rothwell "reads and writes" (CT, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Of A Chance (Zebra Debut) (Paperback)
I met the author online through her writing (notes, not books) and almost at once thought "I can't WAIT to read her book."
It's such a relief to know that her wit, charm and laugh-out-loud lines fill the heart of her story too. The setting of a small town theater's production is perfect (for a production of "Bad Business on the Brazos" a wonderfully campy play). First person is perfect, too. A delicious combination of mystery, ghost story and chick-lit with a heart.
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