G. B. Ralph author header text with festive elf hat.

1 week until book release: Fright on Stage Right

With only 1 week until we’re back in Milverton for Fright on Stage Right, I thought I’d share the start of Chapter 1!

Selfie in front of a bookcase while holding an ereader displaying Chapter 1

Can’t quite read the text in the image? I’ve copied it below:

Chapter 1 opening lines

It was all for show. Nobody would be getting slaughtered tonight.
	That’s what Addison had to remind himself after he arrived at Milverton Town Hall and looked up to find it transformed. Wrought iron lanterns flanked the doors, with lights flickering as if they could go out at any moment. The ‘Milverton’ carved into the stone above the doors remained clear, but the ‘Town Hall’ had been obscured by a seemingly blood-spattered banner with thick, red brush strokes spelling out ‘Slaughterhouse’.

Excerpt from Fright on Stage Right by G. B. Ralph

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Fright on Stage Right (A Milverton Mystery) by G. B. Ralph. Cover image and description/blurb. It’s opening night at the theatre and Addison Harper has front-row seats with Sergeant Jake Murphy. This might just be his perfect date. The variety show promises spooky Halloween fun, ghoulish drag queens, frightening musical numbers, and the scariest thing of all: audience participation. Of course, the unlucky victim dragged from the safety of his seat is a mortified Addison. In a production full of twists and turns, he has no idea what’s coming next but nobody could have anticipated witnessing a sudden, absolutely unscripted, and very real death. A dreadful accident? Or was it foul play? As the curtain falls before a horror-struck audience, Addison Harper finds himself once again in the spotlight at centre stage.

G. B. Ralph

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