Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interrupted Aria | 2004 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
| 2 | Interrupted aria : the first baroque mystery | 2004 | Beverle Graves Myers | N/A |
| 3 | Painted Veil | 2005 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
| 4 | Cruel Music | 2006 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
| 5 | The Iron Tongue of Midnight | 2008 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
| 6 | Her Deadly Mischief | 2009 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
| 7 | Whispers of Vivaldi | 2014 | Beverle Graves Myers | Buy |
The Tito Amato series by Beverle Graves Myers runs seven entries from 2004 to 2014, starting with Interrupted Aria. Tito Amato is a castrato, a male singer who was surgically altered as a child to preserve his voice. He performs in Venice’s opera houses and keeps getting pulled into murder investigations among the aristocracy.
The setting is unusual for a mystery series: baroque Venice, with its opera culture, political intrigue, and social hierarchy all playing roles in the plots. Myers’s research into the period is thorough, and the castrato angle gives the protagonist a distinctive outsider perspective on the world he moves through.