Book description
When private eye Tess Monaghan finds herself literally on a collision
course with the makers of a TV series being shot in her native
Baltimore, it's not only her introduction to the surreal world of
televison drama, but also the beginning of a case that only a crazed
scriptwriter could have dreamed up for her. Selene Waites, the glamorous
but brittle young star of the show, has been the victim of a twisted
stalker, and executive producer Flip Tumulty thinks Tess would be just
the person to bodyguard her during filming. At first, Selene seems like
a spoiled kook out of central casting and the babysitting job a PR sham,
but as Tess gets sucked deeper into the show's labyrinthine web of
deceptions and betrayals, she soon finds she's unwittingly become the
main feature in a storyline featuring murder, kidnapping and sickening
obsession. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Laura Lippman was a
newspaper reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at the BALTIMORE
SUN. She lives in Baltimore.
