The Nicky D’Amico Mysteries

Nicky D’Amico is young, smart, energetic, unlucky in love but great at solving murders. Whichever theater Nicky and his friends work, trouble follows – the sort of trouble that can keep a guy (and the victims) from ever having a life.

A HABIT FOR DEATH

Escaping the heat and heartbreak of New York City for a summer in rural Pennsylvania sounded like the perfect plan to Nicky D’Amico. Little did he know that what began as a heavenly idea would turn out to be a hell of a job!
Each year the nuns of rural St. Gilbert’s College hire a city slicker to help with their summer theater festival. As the stage manager, Nicky has a lot to handle–a truly awful musical script, bickering school staff, a huge crush on the cute guy in the chorus but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Convent of Fear, the school’s play, features a serial nun killer. When several cast members are murdered, the mystery moves from the stage to real life. With its suspenseful plot, loveable characters, and laugh-out-loud humor, A Habit for Death is one habit you won’t want to break.

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ICE IN HIS VEINS

After a disastrous stint as stage manager at a Catholic college, Nicky D’Amico moves back to New York to get his life in order. The good Company’s all-male production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a little unorthodox, but he’s thrilled about working with some of his old college friends.

This midwinter production of Dream soon becomes a nightmare when one of the actors is found dead behind the theater. It’s clear that the murderer is someone with the production–one of them!

The show must go on, but with someone hiding liquor bottles all over the set, more than one diva with an untrustworthy entourage, and two cute guys vying for his affections, Nicky has his hands full. Everyone is a suspect, and Nicky must figure out who the killer is–before it’s curtains for another cast member.

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