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In this second Hollywood mystery, film costumer Joey Jessop discovers that Hollywood buries its secrets deep when a superstar’s assistant turns up dead.
Costumer Joey Jessop is working on a movie set in 1930s Hollywood and starring two of the world’s biggest stars. The male lead is also a dedicated social activist, and the female lead, Gillian Best, is known for her lifestyle brand. After a hit-and-run near the set, Joey realizes that the car involved belongs to Gillian, and she begins to wonder if the actress has more to hide than her Botox appointments.
Her suspicions deepen when Gillian’s personal assistant, Rita, vows to get revenge for Gillian replacing her and is found dead shortly after. Gillian quickly labels Rita’s death a suicide, and the police seem to agree–but Joey isn’t so sure.
With the police standing aside, it’s up to Joey to dig up the truth—but Hollywood stars know how to keep their secrets close, and a woman like Gillian Best won’t take kindly to someone sniffing around her affairs. Joey is certain that Gillian has something to hide–and she’s determined to find out what.
“A must-read movie mystery packed with juicy details from a Hollywood insider.”
—Ellen Byron, USA Today bestselling author on Final Cut
“An insider look at what it’s like to work on Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster.”
—Kellye Garrett, Agatha, Anthony, and Lefty Award winning author of Like a Sister
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marjorie McCown has spent her entire professional life in the story-telling business, though she started out on the visual side of the craft. She spent more than twenty-five years in Hollywood working as a key member of the costume design teams for a string of successful movies that includes Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, The Firm, A Bronx Tale, Wag the Dog, The Aviator, Hairspray, Angels and Demons, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. McCown has a BA in theater from the University of Virginia and an AAS in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Southern California.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Maggie Morgan is a costume designer for stage and screen. She got her start in the film business as an assistant costume designer on feature films including A Bronx Tale (where she met Marjorie McCown), Apollo 13, Casino, Men in Black, Batman and Robin, Wag the Dog, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Mona Lisa Smile. She joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2003 and returned to designing for the theatre at the Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Magic Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Theatre Works, Center Rep, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, the Hollywood Bowl, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Her designs include the Broadway musical Soul Doctor, the film Car Dogs starring Patrick J. Adams, and the award-winning web series Send Me. Her work was featured in the exhibition CURTAIN CALL: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts in 2008. She recently designed the costumes for the stage adaptation of 1984 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. She holds an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama. She and her husband have lived in Napa since 2016.
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