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Bailey Weggins just got a new job writing about celebrity crime stories for Buzz magazine. Because celebrities are the main topic in this magazine, she gets all the news about the entertainment industry early. There are rumors going around about a new crime TV show called Morgue and to Bailey's surprise an old friend, Chris Wickersham, has the starring role in the show. Because of the circumstances at the time they had first known each other, they have never become more than friends, but Bailey has always been interested in him because he seems like a nice young man who just happens to be so handsome it almost hurts to look at him. Out of the blue Bailey receives a phone call from Chris asking her to help him find the whereabouts of fellow actor Tom Fain. Tom also had a role in the new show but suddenly disappeared. Though no one thinks that Tom's disappearance is very strange, as he has been known to take off on occasions, Chris insists that his friend would never willingly give up the role in the new TV drama that is sure to become a big hit. He is certain something is desperately wrong and after Bailey learns more about Tom's childhood, she feels a kinship with him and agrees that Tom must be found. As Bailey interviews members of the cast and the production crew of the new show, she discovers that Tom was a good guy who couldn't say no easily. That led to too many people who might want Tom to disappear: one crew member borrowed a lot of money off him and might not want to pay him back, another man used Tom's troubles to get the starring role Tom had wanted and a few months before, a woman had been stalking him. And most worrisome, two women from the show had pushed themselves on Tom as love interests and he was too quiet a guy to refuse their attentions or to tell them about the other. If they found out about each other, then he had two more people who might want him punished. On top of that, the producer of the show is the live-in lover of one of the women and he is known to be very violent. Bailey soon starts to get strange phone calls in the middle of the night where a weird electronic voice is heard cackling a mad laugh – and then Bailey finds out that a person she talked to had been murdered. She knows it's up to her to find out who is responsible for the murders before she is harmed. LETHALLY BLOND is a well-written, first-rate mystery. The main character is a woman who has a good head on her shoulders and knows enough about the world to see through most people's false stories. Author Kate White also made the secondary characters very real. The members of the crew and the other actors all had their own well-defined personalities and all rang out as true to life. The dialogue flowed well and the pace and the clues kept me firmly within the story of the book at all times. Written with a sense of sophistication and containing a darn good mystery, LETHALLY BLOND is sure to be a big hit with readers this year.
Reviewed by A. L. Katz, March 2007
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