I love this investigator duo Frey and McGray.
A theater group that has already performed Macbeth in London comes to Edinburgh to perform the production there as well.
There was already an incident in London during the last screening. A 'banshee' uttered a terrible scream and blood threatens to die.
Already during the rehearsals there are deaths around the theater group and every time there is a new message.
Frey and McGray are running out of time. They grope in the dark for a long time. Can you prevent further murders?
It was an exciting read. ( )

One of the investigators is sure that something supernatural is going on...after all this is Hamlet what else would you expect? His partner scoffs at this otherworldly belief...all complete nonsense and seeks a more down-to-earth explanation for the weird happenings that occur prior to opening night. Little do they know that they are both right. I found the plot to be a little over the top and not very believable and I am a ghost story... anything supernatural... junkie. I don't think I would exactly call it a "who-done-it", but it is an entertaining enough read. ( )

1889 and Henry Irving has brought his production of Macbeth to Edinburgh. Ticket sales are not going well but when leading actress Ellen Terry finds a blood-soaked parcel in her dressing room and a banshee's howl is heard across the town followed by a prophecy written in blood, the theatre is suddenly inundated. Detectives Frey and McGray investigate the supernatural and corporal goings-on, trying to find out whether or not there is a threat to the production. however between madness, scandal and personal problems for both, it is difficult to separate crime from theatrical embellishment.

Apparently this is the third novel in a series but this is the first that I have read. The basic premise of the book is interesting. Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry were long-term collaborators and former lovers, each carried plenty of scandal with them, the theatre manager at the time was Bram (Dracula) Stoker. By weaving these historical characters into a fictional plot, Muriel is intriguing the reader. The setting in Victorian Edinburgh is interesting and very atmospheric, the plot is complicated and draws many threads together. That, however, is where my enjoyment started to wane. the plot is exceptionally complex and reliant on the reader having more knowledge of the back-story of the characters than was supplied in this instalment. The actual perpetrator and the bones of the plot seemed to come rather out of left-field in the final stages, taking quite a detour from what had been set up originally. This wasn't a bad book by any means. ( )