Dazzle Me Dead - Paperback

by Lindsay Maracotta (Author)

Lucy Frampton just wants to make animated movies and to raise as functional a family as possible in the midst of Hollywood's special brand of madness. Unfortunately, when her producer-husband Kit scores his first blockbuster movie, he is stricken with dreaded "Mogus Virus"-(a common ailment!), which compels seemingly down-to-earth people to hire personal chefs and trainers and share enough air-kisses to inflate the Hindenburg. And adding to the crazy is the suspicious on-location death of his director, the much-despised whiz-kid Jeremy Lord. What's a rational wife to do?

Suddenly Lucy's only hope of maintaining some semblance of domestic bliss is to dive alone into the Pacific Palisades shark pool of actors, agents, industry honchos, lavish spenders, spoiled brats, ex-wives and voluptuous nannies, and surface with the killer. Her only weapon in this ocean of sex, lies, and camera phones is her irreverence and smarts -and they may not be formidable enough to protect Lucy from the dangerous predator who's circling....

*Originally published as The Dead Celeb.

Author Biography

Lindsay's first success as a writer was her sixth grade Thanksgiving play, about a plucky Pilgrim girl and her wise-cracking pet turkey. She has since written for Glamour, Harper's, Mademoiselle, and the L.A. Times Magazine, notably doing the PlayboyInterview with the cast of Saturday Night Live.

She is the author of the laugh-out-loud Dead Is The New Fabulous mystery series, starring the vintage-wearing, wise-cracking, animator-turned-sleuth Lucy Frampton, was twice a Sisters In Crime notable book and was adapted by Hallmark Channel as the movie The Hollywood Moms Mystery, starring Justine Bateman, Elizabeth Pena, and George Hamilton, with Lindsay serving as Executive Producer. Her most recent novel, The Producer's Daughter, is a selection of The Book of the Month Club, The Mystery Writer's Book Club, and the Literary Guild Book Club.

She is also the author of the chilling suspense novel, Hide & Seek, a national bestseller that was translated into nine languages, and Everything We Wanted, a contemporary women's fiction novel. Writing as Lindsay Graves, she's also the author of the wickedly-funny The Ex-Wives series.

Lindsay wrote for the Emmy-winning HBO suspense series The Hitchhiker and recently co-produced the movie Breaking at the Edge, a supernatural thriller starring Milo Ventimiglia, Rebecca Da Costa, and Andie MacDowell.

She lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and two ready-for-their-close-ups cats.