Hollywood Plays for Keeps: A Mystery

In this cozy mystery, amateur sleuth and aspiring mystery writer Veronica Kennicott is lured by friends into a theatrical production plagued by ghosts, spectral events, and murders. In Hollywood’s seedy Valentine Theater, a former funeral home, the underbelly of the acting world emerges as a contrary one where the smaller the reward, the more vicious the competition. In a story, punctuated with dark humor and provocative satire, has-beens and wannabes mingle with stars under the spotlights where surface is substance and murder lurks in the wings. With the studio system in Hollywood displaced by the small theatre training ground, the "play's the thing" as actors claw their way to the big screen. Opening night looms with careers at stake. The multiple rich characters stop at nothing to win their fifteen minutes of fame as Veronica follows a deadly and threatening trail to a shattering conclusion. [DEATH SETS SAIL ~~ Second in Series]