Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett

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I think I'm getting a little tired of the escapades of Stephanie Plum-like characters. Although Kellye Garrett's second Detective By Day mystery,Hollywood Ending, is set in Hollywood, apprentice private eye Dayna Anderson and her best friend, Sienna, are a little too Stephanie and Lulu for me.

After solving a hit-and-run case, former commercial spokesperson Dayna Anderson wants to become an apprentice in training to cop turned private investigator Aubrey Adams-Parker. She thinks she’s found the perfect case when Lyla Davis, spokesperson for the upcoming Silver Sphere Awards event, is killed at an ATM. Dayna’s boyfriend, hot actor Omari Grant, had been at that ATM just minutes earlier. Dayna teams up with her best friend, Sienna Hayes, a reality star wannabe, and uses her wiles and connections to probe the social media secrets of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Some people have secrets worth killing for, and Lyla Davis seems to have known them all. Dayna’s soon caught up in Hollywood gossip, while trying to push Aubrey to become licensed as a PI so she can continue her own adventures. Dayna’s schemes are sidetracked when she realizes she’s picked the wrong person as a killer. In Hollywood, what’s one more false story?

In Hollywood, everyone has an angle. Sienna always wears red, and even hires a paparazzi to follow her around and take pictures. It's all about publicity, gossip blogging, who's dating who. And, so much of the world is pretend. All the deception makes it hard for Dayna to get an angle on the killer. Then, there's the mysterious Z who keeps showing up "to help" as Dayna's investigating.

Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will feel right at home with the outrageous mistakes and sexy men. Garrett spent eight years working in Hollywood, including writing for Cold Case. The author’s insider knowledge of Hollywood adds to the humor. Maybe I'm just not interested in clothes and shoes and makeup and Hollywood celebrities. I'm the wrong audience for Hollywood Homicide.

Kellye Garrett's website is www.kellyegarrett.com

Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett. Midnight Ink, 2018. ISBN 9780738752976 (paperback), 312p.

*****
FTC Full Disclosure - I received Hollywood Homicide to review for a journal.



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