MURDER IN THE DRESSING ROOM

When the London drag scene loses a queen, her drag daughter works to make sure she can rest in power by solving her murder.

Striking drag queen Misty Divine hasn’t always been able to skate by on her good looks. Really, she owes a lot of her success to Lady Lady, her mentor and drag mother, who’s let her perform at the glamorous cabaret club Lady’s Bar for the last five years. Misty lives for these nights in the heart of Soho, while her offstage life as hotel accounts assistant Joe Brown is considerably more humdrum and drama-free. But drama isn’t always good, as Misty finds when Lady Lady has an off night of hosting, bumbling where she’s always been confident. Could the problem be some sort of fight with club co-owner Mandy White, whom Misty overhears in a surprising tiff with Lady Lady after the show? Before Misty can figure out what might be at the heart of Lady Lady’s distraction, she finds her mentor killed by what seems to be poisoned chocolate. Although the distraught Misty expresses her hope to Miles, her partner, that justice will be served, the opposite seems to be the case as the investigation into Lady Lady’s death begins. The police insist on referring to the deceased as Sean Fulton and not by her drag name, and Joe sounds like a pretty good suspect to them. Misty’s sure that her knowledge of the ins and outs of the drag world will give her a leg up in figuring out what happened, but she doubts that she’ll be able to grease the wheels of justice from a jail cell.

A series debut that may grow into something really good.