Murder in the Movies: Volume 1 (A Katlin Wallace Mystery) - Softcover

Luttrell, Esther

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540305910 ISBN 13: 9781540305916

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Former film industry insider Katlin Wallace thinks she has left everything that has to do with Hollywood behind her when she and her husband retire to Florida. What she hadn’t counted on was her husband walking out on her, or her best friend Helen calling from Studio City, begging her to come back to California. Helen’s daughter, Lane Allison, once America’s Sweetheart of the Cinema, has been accused of murdering her producer husband. Witnesses claim they saw Lane Allison push her producer husband down a flight of stairs during a party. Helen needs Katie to see them through the worst nightmare of their life.When feisty, quick-witted and sharp-tongued Katlin arrives to offer moral support, she unwittingly exposes an adoring ex-wife, a conniving relative, a Bible-thumping lover, a crafty brother-in-law, a suspicious acting secretary who can’t stop crying, and a foreign student with his own reasons for wanting Richard Wagnor dead. Each of them has motive and opportunity, but how could they have killed him when everyone saw Lane do it? And why is Katlin suddenly on someone’s hit list? The fast-moving, often funny but always chillingly entertaining, trail leads to twists and turns intended to take Katlin’s breath away—permanently. Were it not for her curiosity and stubborn determination, a cunning killer could quite possibly have gotten away with the perfect murder.

About this title

About the Author:

I became a writer because I have no skills. There was nothing left to do but pick up a pencil and start writing. It was a fluke I landed a job at CBS and a bigger one that I was with MGM for some of the best years of my life, after writing radio and television commercials, and educational films, in the Midwest. My last screenplay was for the feature film "Te Ata" (www.teatathemovie.com). I doubt I will write more for the motion picture industry; I'm having too much fun turning out books - mysteries, poetry, non-fiction and children's books - and doing public speaking. I live back in the Midwest now, with way too many cats.

From the Inside Flap:

When Katlin Wallace and her retired detective husband left their Hollywood agency to move to central Florida, she thought she d left everything to do with the film industry behind until she got a phone call one fateful night ... a call begging her to come back to see her friend, Helen, through the darkest hours of her life.Helen s daughter, Lane Allison, once known as American s Sweetheart, had been a star the magnitude of Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds. Happily married now and the mother of three, she was content at last. That s why Helen knew beyond a doubt that Lane had nothing to do with Richard s death. What could Katlin do but go to her friend s side? What could she do but hold Helen s hand and listen to the story Helen told over and over again of how Lane and her husband had an argument in front of guests, how the sister-in-law swore Lane pushed him down a flight of stairs, and how Wagnor had died of massive head wounds. But...if it were that cut-and-dried, why did Katlin s old studio buddy, a retired cop, warn her to watch her back? And why did someone see fit to try and kill her, not once but twice, in the span of a single week? With the press convinced that Katlin is covertly helping to clear the former movie star of murder charges, she stumbles into a nightmare as bizarre as anything ever dreamed up by Hollywood s most prolific screenwriters.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1540305910
• ISBN 13: 9781540305916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320