David W. Barber

In a small town with secrets, a jaded journalist uncovers a scandal some powerful forces would kill to keep hidden. When corporate “restructuring” takes veteran journalist Dugan Heywood’s newspaper job, he takes a temp gig as a church musician as a welcome change of pace from his old beat...

David W. Barber has delighted readers/listeners around the world with Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings, and other internationally best-selling books of musical humor. His best-selling Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and not-so-great) composers as...

From the internationally bestselling author of Hedshot and Mugshot comes a new Dugan Heywood mystery, HOTSHOT! A Messiah performance is threatened. But who may abide such treachery?

Chances are you've heard Handel's Messiah at least once, if not many times. Maybe you've even performed it, as have countless musicians around the world. After all, it's probably one of the best-loved, and certainly one of the best-known, works in the standard repertoire. But if you think you...