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Actresses Crimes against Fiction African American psychologists Fiction Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) Fiction Girls England Fiction Government investigators Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses Crimes against Fiction Motion pictures Production and direction Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Serial murders FictionViets, Elaine
Summary: Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women, fires her entourage and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. She collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, but she ignores the advice of her doctors and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEClark, Mary Jane Behrends.
Summary: After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CLAHaines, Carolyn.
Summary: Displaced from it's New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is opening right in the heart of Zinnia, and featuring hunky star Graf Mileau! Sarah Booth, who had her own brief stint with Mileau, is less than thrilled. Graf is now linked with his costar, Renata Troviola, a dyed in the wool diva who plans to ride Graf's coattails all the way to Hollywood. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIWright, Erica
Summary: "When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something of an outsider, and his wife's death hasn't exactly improved his reputation. In fact, the local gossipmongers think he might be losing his mind. Their bless-your-heart manners can't disguise their distrust, which makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIPatterson, James
Summary: FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PatGuttridge, Peter.
Summary: "During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor into falling to his death from the stage. The source of the blood: Elvira Wright, the lead actress, has been bludgeoned by a lead weight used for opening the curtain.Meanwhile former Hollywood actress Nimue Grace is attracting attention from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTPatterson, James
Summary: PD detective turned FBI agent Alex Cross is enjoying a much-needed vacation at Disneyland with his family when he's called in by the FBI to consult with the LAPD on a high-profile murder case. A-list actress Antonia Schifman has been slain, her face so badly cut up that she's almost unrecognizable. The murder isn't random; an L.A. Times gossip columnist has received a series of e-mails from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: PD detective turned FBI agent Alex Cross is enjoying a much-needed vacation at Disneyland with his family when he's called in by the FBI to consult with the LAPD on a high-profile murder case. A-list actress Antonia Schifman has been slain, her face so badly cut up that she's almost unrecognizable. The murder isn't random; an L.A. Times gossip columnist has received a series of e-mails from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANWilson, Laura
Summary: London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPintoff, Stefanie.
Summary: 1906. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage, dressed in the leading lady's costume, Mulvaney knows that news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINBradley, C. Alan
Summary: "Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABradley, C. Alan
Summary: It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving, is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRARobb, J. D.
Summary: NYC Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the death of a young actress with the assistance of her husband Rourke and Detective Peabody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: Actress Kelly Trent becomes the victim of an obsessed fan who confuses her with the evil character that she plays on TV, and, after several attempts on her life, she teams up with a sexy former cop to catch a determined killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRABradley, C. Alan
Summary: When Colonel de Luce, needing funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company at Christmastime, the company begins its scenes with a famous and reclusive star who is widely despised; when the star turns up murdered, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce must negotiate with the suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRAHamilton, Denise.
Summary: L.A. Times reporter Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a romantic date with her new love, Silvio Aguilar, for quite some time. She envisions opening night at the theater, cocktails, and then a sultry evening to catch up on all they've been missing. But when the play's beautiful and notoriously unstable lead actress, Catarina Velosi, fails to appear, Eve learns that Silvio and the missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HAMAbbott, Megan
Summary: A fictionalized account based on the mysterious 1949 disappearance of actress Jean Spangler, whose demise was linked to the Black Dahlia killings, is a darkly sensual tale that imagines what may have been her fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABBGraham, Heather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRABradford, Barbara Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001