Review: Somebody is Killing the Trophy Wives of Beverly Hills – John Kane

In Hollywood, all the stars, the top directors, the studio tycoons and, of course the rock stars have replaced their first wives with the younger, newer, hotter model. Everywhere she looks, glitz-writer Nikki Tyler sees trophy wives. Some of them are even her friends… but that doesn’t mean she wants one of them to send her their manuscript and ask for help placing it with her publisher. Still, Hollywood is all about connections and favors–Nikki figures she owes it to her friend Tamara to at least look at the project which turns out to be a story of blackmail and murder among the trophy wives of Beverly Hills. Nikki doesn’t see much hope, but when Nikki finds Tamara’s murdered body, she suspects someone thought the book’s sins were more than its lack of literary merit.

Nikki sets out to uncover the truth behind Tamara’s death–while tooling around Beverly Hills in her Bentley. Interviews with rock stars in rehab, a divorce lawyer who delivers results for men dumping troublesome wives (so they can marry a younger trophy), a secretive cult-like religion that’s attracting Hollywood’s top talent and Nikki’s developing relationship with the detective assigned to the case (a detective who has an interesting secret past) make her investigation a lot of fun.

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Release Date: August 6, 2010
Publisher: Booksforabuck.com
Source: Provided by Author/Publisher via Manic Reader
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love books that make me laugh out loud – books that are so cleverly written that you emerge yourself into the characters and the world that they live in. This offering from John Kane does just that and so much more. His satirical take on what has become a reality television phenomenon is absolutely brilliant. He has mixed quite an eccentric group of characters whose lives play out like a perfectly scripted Hollywood film. The murder mystery is classic, keeping you engaged and on the edge of your seat as you try to figure out, along with the rest of the characters, who the culprit is. There’s romance, the glitz and glam of Beverly Hills and of course, sex (wink).

As a huge fan of murder mysteries, I was excited to try a book by a new to me author. And I can honestly tell you, that it was an absolute delight. He has written a great mystery that will keep me coming back to him time and time again.