Curtain Call Conspiracy
(2026)(The fifth book in the Seabrook Pavilion Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Curtain call is supposed to mean applause, flowers, and a grateful exit. In Seabrook, it means someone is about to vanish, and someone else is about to be blamed for it.
When Jubilee Week turns the Seabrook Pavilion into a glittering showpiece for donors and dignitaries, costume maker Mabs Dyer is forced back into the spotlight she never wanted. A sealed corridor is reopened for a ‘history exhibition,’ a key witness turns up dead, and the papers that could finally break the town’s power circle disappear overnight. The timing is too perfect. The story being spread is even more perfect.
With DS Theo Briggs sidelined by political pressure, Mabs has to hunt truth the only way she knows: by tracking access, timing, and the small physical details liars forget to control. But the closer she gets to the ledger that started it all, the more the Pavilion’s polished faces turn sharp. Someone is moving witnesses. Someone is rewriting records. And someone has decided Mabs is the easiest ending.
The final performance is starting. This time, the killer is not counting on Mabs refusing to leave the stage.
Curtain Call Conspiracy is Book 5 in The Seabrook Pavilion Mysteries by Diana Beckett.
Genre: Mystery
When Jubilee Week turns the Seabrook Pavilion into a glittering showpiece for donors and dignitaries, costume maker Mabs Dyer is forced back into the spotlight she never wanted. A sealed corridor is reopened for a ‘history exhibition,’ a key witness turns up dead, and the papers that could finally break the town’s power circle disappear overnight. The timing is too perfect. The story being spread is even more perfect.
With DS Theo Briggs sidelined by political pressure, Mabs has to hunt truth the only way she knows: by tracking access, timing, and the small physical details liars forget to control. But the closer she gets to the ledger that started it all, the more the Pavilion’s polished faces turn sharp. Someone is moving witnesses. Someone is rewriting records. And someone has decided Mabs is the easiest ending.
The final performance is starting. This time, the killer is not counting on Mabs refusing to leave the stage.
Curtain Call Conspiracy is Book 5 in The Seabrook Pavilion Mysteries by Diana Beckett.
Genre: Mystery
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