7/6/2023 0 Comments Bellweather rhapsody![]() For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted. Fifteen years ago, a murder/suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it. The search for answers entwines a hilariously eccentric cast of characters-conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous murder/suicide fifteen years earlier. Is it a prank, or has murder struck the Bellweather once again? Then one of the orchestra’s stars disappears-from room 712. ![]() ![]() Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual Statewide festival the grown-up bridesmaid has returned to face her demons and a snowstorm is forecast that will trap everyone on the grounds. A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous crime, in a whip-smart novel sparkling with the dark and giddy pop culture pleasures of The Shining, Agatha Christie, and Glee.įifteen years ago, a murder/suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it. Set in 1997 at the once grand and now-crumbling Bellweather Hotel in the Catskills while it hosts a weekend conference for student musicians, Bellweather Rhapsody is a genre-bendy mystery, thriller, love and ghost story, that’s also as close to a musical in novel form as I could write. ![]()
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