Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery

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A FRANCESCA FRUSCELLA MYSTERY i Expec aon tt FC2 tuscaloosa A FRANCESCA FRUSCELLA MYSTERY i Expec aon tt JEFFREY DESHELL Copyright © 2013 by Jeffrey DeShell The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America FC2 is an imprint of The University of Alabama Press Book Design: Illinois State University’s English Department’s Publications Unit; Director: Tara Reeser; Assistant Director: Steve Halle; Production Assistant: Brian Hedgepeth Cover Design: Lou Robinson Typeface: Garamond ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data DeShell, Jeffrey. Expectation : a Francesca Fruscella mystery / Jeffrey DeShell. pages cm ISBN 978-1-57366-175-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-157366 -843-9 (e-book) 1. Women detectives—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation— Fiction. I. Title. PS3554.E8358E94 2013 813’.54—dc23 2013013564 TO PATRICK GREANEY Music is similar to language. Expressions like musical idiom or musical accent are not metaphors. But music is not language. Its similarity to language points to its innermost nature, but also toward something vague. The person who takes music literally as a language will be led astray by it. —t. w. adorno, “music, language, and composition” ...