Vaudeville actress Leah Randall took on her most daring role ever when she impersonated missing heiress Jessie Carr in order to claim Jessie\'s inheritance in "The Impersonator." Now that the dust has settled around that tumultuous time in her life, Leah has adopted Jessie\'s name as her own and moved to Hollywood, where she\'s taken a modest but steady job in the Silent film industry.
Miley lives in Richmond, Virginia..
Silent Murders is her second novel.
She worked at Colonial Williamsburg, taught American history at Virginia Commonwealth University for thirteen years, and has published extensively in history and travel.
About author(s): MARY Miley is the winner of the 2012 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition.
But will doing so put her own life directly in the path of a murderer? With " Silent Murders ," MB/MWA First Crime Novel Competition winner Mary Miley has crafted another terrifically fun mystery, this time set in the dizzying, dazzling heart of jazz-age Hollywood.
She\'s devastated, but with her skill as an actress, access to the wardrobes and resources of a film studio, and a face not yet famous enough to be recognized, Jessie is uniquely positioned to dig into the circumstances surrounding these deaths.
But the following day, Jessie learns that sometime in the wee hours of the morning both her old friend and Bruno Heilmann were brutally murdered.
She\'s even more delighted to run into a face from her past at that party.
Jessie\'s thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites her to a party.
Vaudeville actress Leah Randall took on her most daring role ever when she impersonated missing heiress Jessie Carr in order to claim Jessie\'s inheritance in "The Impersonator." Now that the dust has settled around that tumultuous time in her life, Leah has adopted Jessie\'s name as her own and moved to Hollywood, where she\'s taken a modest but steady job in the Silent film industry
