Corpse de Ballet by Ellen Pall features Juliet Bodine, a successful writer of Regency novels and ex-professor of English literature at Barnard, puts aside her own deadlines to give literary advice to her longtime friend, Ruth Renswick, choreographer for the Jansch Ballet Company of New York, who is creating a new ballet based on Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. When the principal dancer dies during a rehersal, Juliet is convienced that it is murder. Unfortunately the police do not agree, so Juliet tries to ignore her gutt instinct but when another dancer almost dies during another rehersal can she convience the police that foul play is afoot? An entertaining read, I enjoyed the descriptions of the various ballet dancers and of the dance itself. I did get annoyed with Juliet and her odd and rather flat relationships with Ruth and her assistant and most of all the conflict between love internet Would read more by this author.