Dancing Made Easy (Flap Tucker Mystery) - Softcover

Phillip DePoy is the acclaimed author of three previous Flap Tucker mysteries: Easy, Too Easy, and Easy as One, Two, Three, and an essay and photo collection, Messages from Beyond. He has published short fiction, poetry, and criticism in Story, Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, Yankee, and other magazines, and is an established presence in theater, music, and folklore in the Southeast. He lives on Saint Simons Island, Georgia.

tiful victims, it was the last dance. For a psychic detective, the waltz has just begun....

Lesson One: The Tarantella

She had been young, pretty, a budding ballerina. Now, beneath a streetlight in the cold Atlanta dawn, she's pirouetting at the end of a rope, a note pinned to her lapel: "Number One--The Tarantella." A dance of evil has commenced, a sinister medley of malice that will unfold over time as a ruthless killer leads Flap Tucker through the steps of a pattern only he can unravel.

Lesson Two: The Tango

The next dangling corpse sends Flap spinning blindly through Atlanta's underside, where two mobsters duel violently for love and money, a brilliant musician sidelines in secrets, and a monster circles close to Flap's cherished friend, Dalliance Oglethorpe. As he struggles to find his footing--blocked from his Zenlike ability to glimpse the truth behind reality's curtain--the murderous beat quickens around him, and a deadly dancer mo