Encore for a Killer
(2026)(The second book in the Seabrook Pavilion Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
The spotlight was supposed to fall on Seabrook’s brightest star.
Instead, it falls on a body.
Costume mistress Mabs Dyer has barely survived the scandal of her first murder investigation when the Seabrook Pavilion launches a pier-side charity concert designed to prove the town is ‘back to normal.’ It’s all moonlight, music, and donor smiles… right up until the headliner collapses mid-encore after one last sip from her ‘stage tonic.’
The official story is a tragic medical reaction. Convenient. Tidy. And completely wrong.
With the tonic bottle vanishing, the press circling, and the Pavilion board itching to blame her to protect their precious benefactors, Mabs has one option: find the truth fast or lose everything she’s rebuilt. But this case isn’t just about a poisoned performer. The trail runs through clinic volunteers, hush files, and a polished charity machine that knows exactly how to turn grief into a headline and an outsider into a villain.
As Mabs and DS Theo Briggs chase evidence through backstage corridors and pier-side whispers, one thing becomes clear: someone didn’t just want the singer gone. They wanted the story controlled.
And if Mabs pulls the wrong thread, she might be the next one cut from the programme.
Encore for a Killer is Book 2 in The Seabrook Pavilion Mysteries, a clever, clean cozy mystery packed with theatre secrets, small-town power plays, and a slow-burn partnership that keeps getting messier the closer it gets to trust.
Genre: Mystery
Instead, it falls on a body.
Costume mistress Mabs Dyer has barely survived the scandal of her first murder investigation when the Seabrook Pavilion launches a pier-side charity concert designed to prove the town is ‘back to normal.’ It’s all moonlight, music, and donor smiles… right up until the headliner collapses mid-encore after one last sip from her ‘stage tonic.’
The official story is a tragic medical reaction. Convenient. Tidy. And completely wrong.
With the tonic bottle vanishing, the press circling, and the Pavilion board itching to blame her to protect their precious benefactors, Mabs has one option: find the truth fast or lose everything she’s rebuilt. But this case isn’t just about a poisoned performer. The trail runs through clinic volunteers, hush files, and a polished charity machine that knows exactly how to turn grief into a headline and an outsider into a villain.
As Mabs and DS Theo Briggs chase evidence through backstage corridors and pier-side whispers, one thing becomes clear: someone didn’t just want the singer gone. They wanted the story controlled.
And if Mabs pulls the wrong thread, she might be the next one cut from the programme.
Encore for a Killer is Book 2 in The Seabrook Pavilion Mysteries, a clever, clean cozy mystery packed with theatre secrets, small-town power plays, and a slow-burn partnership that keeps getting messier the closer it gets to trust.
Genre: Mystery
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