cover image Too Dead to Swing

Too Dead to Swing

Hal Glatzer. Daniel & Daniel Publishers, $13.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-1-880284-53-7

Amateur detective and professional musician Katy Green has her work cut out for her: not only does she have to play the violin for and negotiate fights between other members of the Ultra Belles, an all-girl swing band, she also has to figure out who's behind a growing list of mysterious deaths. Hal Glatzer's Too Dead to Swing is a strong debut, and the book has a tale of its own: it's based on a story from the late 1940s by mystery ghost-writer Hanna Dobryn, who willed her Katy Green mysteries to Glatzer on the condition he see them into print.