Tightrope

Its place in Burning Cove

Tightrope is book 3 in the Burning Cove series. It follows The Other Lady Vanishes. It is followed by Close Up. See the full Burning Cove reading order.

Quick moves her usual mix of mystery and romance forward roughly a century for this series, trading Regency London for Burning Cove, a fictional 1930s Southern California resort town built as a discreet playground for Hollywood stars and studio executives -- modeled on the real-life glamour of Palm Springs -- where scandal is a professional hazard and a body in the wrong swimming pool can end a career as fast as a bad film. Each novel follows a new pairing, often a woman with a complicated past of her own (an…