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Loading... The Song Is You: A Novelby Megan Abbott
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Hardboiled pick - 2007 (  ) pharrm | Oct 6, 2009 |  A stylish mystery built around a real life disappearance case. A party girl B-actress, in this case. The protagonist of the piece is a little different, in that he is a studio PR flack that happened to be at the same party on the night she was last seen, with a friend. In fact, cops, detectives etc. are pretty much absent in this one, apart from implied threats to inflict on the various dodgy characters who inhabit the Hollywood of this time - most of them in this case in the media. One of the dodgy characters is our publicity man's wife, or ex-wife if you like, as too many nights and too many women have finished that, given his job is to either drink with, be nice to, or get beautiful women out of trouble, a fair bit of the time. More a stylish piece than pulp thrills, as tough guys and bullets are nowhere to be seen, so perhaps rather tame for someone expecting that from their noir. Still good though. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/09... (  ) bluetyson | Sep 17, 2008 | Hop is a fixer, someone who keeps the wheels of the Hollywood star machine well greased and the stars out of the gossip columns. But when a sexy young starlet goes missing after a night of Tinseltown debauchery, Hop can't keep her picture out of his head and tries to track down the story behind her disappearance. Forming an uncomfortable alliance with tough-as-nails reporter Frannie Adair, Hop scours the seamy underbelly of Hollywood and learns more than he bargained for. Hollywood has long been a setting for noir thrillers from Philip Marlowe to James Ellroy and this is a fine entry to the genre, where all the stars have secrets and nothing is as it seems. ( ) blueslibrarian | Apr 13, 2007 | It got ridicuously gory, but it was interesting. (  ) picardyrose | Mar 2, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743261704, Hardcover)FEMME FATALESOBSESSIVE LOVE DOUBLE CROSSES How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. Lora's fascination with Alice's "sins" increases in direct proportion to the escalation of her own relationship with Mike Standish, a charmingly amoral press agent who appears to know more about his old friend Alice than he reveals. The deeper Lora digs to uncover Alice's secrets, the more her own life begins to resemble Alice's sinister past -- and present. Steeped in atmospheric suspense and voyeuristic appeal, Die a Little shines as a dark star among Hollywood lights. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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