When Gus LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of "Spirit Me Away, " a sixties-style musical he wrote in college, he doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée Camille and the drama club. Who's sabotaging the show? And what do they have against Camille?

Is it sex-crazed Armand, the Latino teen infatuated with her? Something happened last year that Camille won't talk about, and it has to do with Armand. Gus wants to know what happened, but she's not talking.

Could it be Superintendent Marshall, whose past holds horrific secrets related to one of the worst crimes of the 20th century? And why did someone break into Camille's home to steal her beloved mini-dachshund, Boris?

Gus must unravel the mystery before the backstage saboteur stakes his final, deadly claim.


"Upstaged left this reviewer applauding!"
~ Joyce Handzo, In the Library Reviews

"...Upstaged is a first-rate mystery that makes the reader want to immediately grab all the other books in the series. Lazar is a talented writer with a heart and an eye for mystery."
~ Shelley Glodowski, Midwest Book Review

"...the poetry and music vibrating between every letter of this text elevates this book to a work of art."
~ Thomas Fortenberry

"...a writer like Lazar is a valuable acquisition and one that all readers of entertainment should value."
~ Bob Williams, CompulsiveReader