Murder at the Academy Awards: a Red Carpet Murder MysteryJoan Rivers w/ Jerrilyn Farmer
Pocket Books, 2009. 311 pgs. Mystery
Joan Rivers presents her definitive autobiography…wait, scratch that, it’s a murder mystery that merely reads as such. She opens with an Academy Awards scene featuring a mother/daughter team reporting on the hottest or nottest fashion choices of all the current A-list stars. Sound familiar? It is.
The only thing that separates fact from fiction in this tell-all is the startling collapse of a freshly-released-from-detox teen starlet who walks down the carpet in her underoos and drops dead just as she delivers a last clue during an exclusive interview with Joan, I mean Max. Now a detoxing starlet hardly seems fictional, but the fact that she was murdered does cross that line. Amidst a blur of Jimmy Choo’s and Michael Kors, Joan/Max must discover who duped the poor girl and bring order back to Hollywood so that shopping can continue as usual. The only serious puzzle is trying to decide just which teen boozer Joan is capitalizing on.
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