Bøger af Susan Kandel

A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved sleuth Miss Marple. Of course, everything goes wrong, including a leading lady who ends up dead.All is not well in Christietown; its secrets are as complicated as the truth behind Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance. The developer, an Englishman who claims to be Dame Agatha's descendent, has ruthless investors breathing down his neck. Meanwhile, Cece's got a wedding to plan, a baby shower to give, and an ex-husband who shows up on her doorstep with his fiancée and future mother-in-law. And when another body surfaces, the intrepid amateur sleuth knows she must play the famed detective for real--or suffer the same mysterious fate.

Dreama Black is almost famous. The daughter (and granddaughter) of groupies who captivated L.A.s biggest rock stars, and muse to her own Grammy-winning ex-boyfriend Luke Cutt, Dreama seems doomed to remain on the periphery of stardom. All that changes when Dreama is hired by record producer Miles McCoy to arrange an epic wedding celebration for his beautiful fiance, Maya Duran. The theme of the party? A noir-style tour through L.A.s most infamous locations and hidden gems. It seems like Dreamas big break, until Maya is rushed to the hospital with a self-inflicted bullet wound. The police and everyone involved assume its an attempted suicide, but Dreama isnt convinced. For one thing, how did the weapon just vanish? Why has Maya been using two names? And then theres the mysterious check for $40,000 that shows up on Dreamas doorstepthe exact amount of money reportedly laundered by her beloved L.A. police detective uncle, and also the exact amount Miles promised as payment for Dreamas party-planning services. Now Dreama is at the center of a mystery worthy of a classic film noir, and must road-trip across L.A. to piece together the cluesbefore she becomes the next femme fatale.