By Laura Lippman
New York Times Bestseller
Award-winning and manhattan Times bestselling writer Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan—first brought within the vintage Baltimore Blues—must safeguard an up-and-coming Hollywood actress, but if homicide moves on a television set, the unflappable PI discovers everyone’s acquired a secret.
“[A] welcome boost to Tess Monaghan’s adventures and an insightful examine the desperation that drives these greedy for a shot at status and people who will do something to maintain it.”—San Francisco Chronicle
When deepest investigator Tess Monaghan actually runs into the workforce of the fledgling television sequence Mann of Steel whereas sculling, she expects sharp phrases and evil appears to be like, not an task. however the corporation has been laid low with a sequence of nerve-racking incidents considering that its arrival on position in Baltimore: undesirable press, union threats, and small, expensive on-set "accidents" that experience wreaked havoc with its taking pictures time table. accordingly, Mann's writer, turn Tumulty, the son of a Hollywood legend, is anxious for the security of his younger girl lead, Selene Waites, and asks Tess to function her bodyguard. Tumulty's main issue should be good based. lately, a Baltimore guy was once stumbled on lifeless in his domestic, surrounded by means of pictures of the beautiful—if difficult—aspiring star.
In the prior, Tess has had sufficient difficulty guarding her own physique. maintaining a spoiled motion picture princess lower than wraps should be greater than she will deal with due to the fact that Selene isn't really as naive as all people turns out to imagine, and as a substitute is sort of devious. as soon as Tess will get a flavor of this international of make-believe—with their vanities, their self-serving agendas, and their remarkably skewed visions of reality—she’s near to able to throw within the towel.
But she’s pulled again in whilst a grisly on-set homicide happens, threatening to topple the wall of secrets and techniques surrounding Mann of metal as lives, desires, and careers are scattered one of the ruins.
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She was once sneaky that method. ” “And she used the knowledge to strength you to get her—well, which activity? She used to be promoted two times, first to the creation assistant’s task within the writers’ place of work, then to Flip’s assistant. At what aspect did she play the Selene card? ” “Greer wasn’t that direct. ” Ben’s characterization stunned Tess; she suggestion the lady had bordered on tactlessly blunt now and then. might be she was once diversified together with her bosses. “She requested for my support, certain, however it was once by no means a strict quid professional quo. glance, not anyone cares who Selene sleeps with. ” “If that’s so, then who’s retaining the tabloids in enterprise? ” That earned a wan smile from Ben. “I suggest, nobody at the construction cares approximately Selene’s love lifestyles, so long as she exhibits up for paintings on time. Underage ingesting, breaking the drug legislation of this kingdom? That makes us anxious, simply because if she will get busted, we’re no longer insured for that. yet she will fuck an individual she desires to. ” His personal phrases appeared to supply him pause. “As lengthy as it’s anyone or anything which can supply educated consent. ” Tess allowed herself the posh of suggestion, of now not coming again at Ben too speedy with one other query. She had a similar sensation that she had whilst conversing with turn. She used to be being tricked, diverted—but from what? Alicia had advised that Ben used to be Greer’s protector, and Tess was once all for that dynamic. however the indisputable fact that Ben was once snoozing with Selene used to be of curiosity to her since it intended he may need details that will make sure even if Selene was once the resource of the issues at the set. Why hadn’t turn requested his previous buddy what he knew approximately Selene, attempted to exploit him as a double agent? definitely, Ben’s loyalties to turn and the creation needed to trump this—Tess groped for a noun yet came upon none. courting? Fling? Soulless carnal come upon? She settled, in her head, for factor. “No one cares who Selene sleeps with,” she repeated. “Does somebody care who Ben sleeps with? ” Bingo. He flushed, dropped his eyes to his espresso, begun jiggling his foot as he had the opposite day. “I will be relatively grateful,” he stated, “if you didn’t point out this to turn. Or Lottie, yet in basic terms simply because she could tattle to turn. i may provide a fuck what Lottie thinks approximately my extracurricular actions. ” “But you don’t wish turn to grasp? i presumed men talked freely approximately such issues. ” “We’ve been buddies many years, on the grounds that grade institution. It will get complex. Do you've got acquaintances like that? ” Tess shrugged. in fact she did, all people did. yet she sought after Ben to maintain speaking, build up sufficient momentum to run into a few inadvertent truths. “I love the man. Love. We’ve been there for every different all our lives. glance, he has the identify, the connections, and not anyone can fit him in terms of the massive photo for a convey. yet he can’t fit me at the line-by-line writing. That’s simply how it is. turn hasn't ever envied my skill to jot down, and I’ve by no means desired to be the son of Phil Tumulty—God understands, I observed how that fucker overlooked turn via a lot of his formative years. I suggest, yeah, I took a summer season activity from him while i used to be twenty-one—I wasn’t going to show down my most sensible connection within the business—but i used to be by no means unaware of his flaws.