Bøger af Penny Pence Smith

Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in an abandoned house in California's high desert. Buried in a purse along with her is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels take him from the wind-swept desert to vintage Hollywood, glamorous Palm Springs, Mexico's cartels-into his own disturbing past. Celebrity journalist Meredith, herself, is suddenly faced with upheavals with the media bosses she serves, and the family's stability is further threatened as she digs into murder charges against a close filmland friend.

Meredith Ogden accepts a network invitation to substitute short-term for the cohost of America's most popular morning TV show from New York, It's A New Day. A glamorous diversion from her L.A. based print journalist duties covering the entertainment industry , she encounters network television politics, an international news reporting idol, the jealousy of her temporary cohost, and impresses network brass. And, becomes the target of an unseen predator committed to destroying her career. Returning home and facing new career opportunities, she visits the location of the upcoming blockbuster film, Shadow of the Waveand is accidentally abandoned on an ancient war ship mothballed with others near San Francisco Bay. She struggles to escape the isolated, ghostly craft, learn who's torpedoing her reputation, and decide on her professional future. The investigation reaches deep into her past, the career decision complicated by her long-time live-in affair with special profile detective T.K. Raymond.

Meredith Ogden is at the top of her game in Hollywood as Legwoman (assistant in modern terms) to Bettina Grant, the country’s most widely read celebrity gossip columnist. But life changes for the 36-year-old journalist when she arrives for work at Grant’s Bel Air home-office on a December morning in 1983 to find her famous boss dead, murdered. A book manuscript lies on the floor next to the death bed. Partnering with High-Profile crimes detective T.K. Raymond to find out who killed Grant and why, Meredith faces more than questions or answers.  A volatile TV night-show host lobs threats because of a damaging news investigation about his background, Grant’s children have demands on the office and valuable celebrity files. Meredith’s home is broken into and searched, and she is assaulted. With T.K. Raymond’s help, and that of an unlikely team of colleagues, Meredith deals with the threats to herself, her future and even ghosts from her own past brought up by the emotional chaos. She unravels the puzzle of her boss's death, and finds some answers to her own future in show business after the loss of her famous mentor.