Glamorous and suspenseful. --Brianna Labuskes, author of The Librarian of Burned Books.
Sarah James\'s swift dialogue, dry wit and clever characters transport you into a 1940s movie, where the jokes are quick, the love affairs scandalous and the cast as charming as they are flawed.
This vibrant, utterly delightful mystery expertly captures the drama, glamour and absurdity of wartime Hollywood.
And by involving herself in the secrets and lies of the Ambassador\'s Club, Annie just might have put a target on her own back.
Solving a murder in real life, it turns out, is a lot harder than writing one for the stage.
To catch the killer, Annie falls in with Fiona\'s friends, a bitter and cynical group--each as uniquely unhappy in their life and career as Annie is in hers--that call themselves the Ambassador\'s Club.
When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen kitchen, Annie realizes any one of the Canteen\'s luminous volunteers could be guilty of the crime.
But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour.
Maybe then she can get her movie made.
Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. --Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business.
Glamorous and suspenseful
