Shankman, Adam and Sullivan, Laura L. Murder Among the Stars, 308 pgs. Simon & Schuster, 2017. Language: PG ( 7 swears, 0“f”); Mature Content: PG13; Violence: PG13 (one of the murders is rather grisly).
In the midst of a contest to win the role of a lifetime, a young starlet is murdered at Hearst Castle, but when Hearst is more concerned about a blackmail letter and another young actress is murdered, Lulu Kelly decides to solve the mystery herself, with some help from her private detective boyfriend, Freddie.
Oh my, this story is predictable, contrived and campy. It’s a mystery, but it doesn’t unravel well; the red herrings are almost silly, the suspects are stereotypical, and the situations are a bit far fetched. The characters are adults but it reads like a middle school story. It’s the second in a series - the story stood on its own, but I would recommend reading Girl About Town first. There were a lot of minor characters that were hard to keep track of - maybe they are in the first book. A “cast list” would have been helpful.
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