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“Be your true self!”\n“Act like a star!”
\n“Stay alive!” Two out of three’s not bad…<\/p>\n
“Be your true self!”
\n“Act like a star!”
\n“Stay alive!” Two out of three’s not bad…<\/p>\n
Lulu hasn’t been in 1920s Hollywood<\/a> long, but she knows there are schemers who’ll do anything to get a role with the big movie studios – absolutely anything!<\/p>\n After her run-in with gangsters, hidden identities, and murderous gossip in her first mystery as Girl About Town<\/em> (my no-spoilers review here<\/a>), the New York native has her eyes wide open and her exit route planned during this raucous extended audition turned deadly. <\/p>\n Glitz, glamour, and gore – ready for your close-up? Book info<\/strong>: Murder Among the Stars (Lulu Kelly mysteries, book 2) \/ Adam Shankman and Laura L. Sullivan.\u00a0 Atheneum Books, 2017.\u00a0 [Adam’s bio<\/a>]\u00a0 [Laura’s Facebook<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>:\u00a0 Playing footsies with a corpse wasn’t what Lulu had expected at this elegant dinner, but the young actress finds even more bizarre things during the weekend-long audition for a movie contract, as she’s drawn into another mystery in 1920s Hollywood.<\/p>\n Imagine being wealthy enough to build a California castle, to own a menagerie with a real lion, to flaunt your mistress in Society, to give expensive gifts to every guest without blinking an eyelash!<\/p>\n For newspaper and movie magnate William Randolph Hearst, this extravagant house-party is just a simple favor for writer Anita Loos, until actresses start being murdered.<\/p>\n For new-to-Hollywood Lulu Kelly, it’s her chance for a starring role, if the 17 year old can outlast the other twenty starlets trying to win over WR and Marion.<\/p>\n For Lulu’s boyfriend Freddie the private eye, this huge party at the remote estate means too many suspects and too many motives for blackmail and murder.<\/p>\n Why is WR’s 10 year old niece Patricia so interested in crimes and murders? Dive into the intrigue and gossip of movie legends in this second Lulu Kelly mystery, as silver screen secrets become oh so deadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Be your true self!” “Act like a star!” “Stay alive!” Two out of three’s not bad… Lulu hasn’t been in 1920s Hollywood long, but she knows there are schemers who’ll do anything to get a role with the big movie studios – absolutely anything! After her run-in with gangsters, hidden identities, and murderous gossip in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,50,51],"tags":[22,4,105,11,45,20,5,70,37,16,44,227,71,39,49,184,180,15,21,66,35,33,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-8832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-movies","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nHow can anyone believe that the first suspect nabbed for the first murder did it?
\nWho invited mobster Sal to this party and does anyone know his connection to Lulu?<\/p>\n