Script for Scandal (A Lilian Frost and Edith Head mystery Book 3) by Renee Patrick

Patrick has written all the modern day effects of Film Noir, with its snappy dialogue and hints of Hollywood, in this Mystery. The friendship between Lillian and Edith Head continues in Book Three. However, the story mostly focuses on Lillian's relationship with an LAPD boyfriend, who cannily resembles a character in a Grade B Manuscript, about to be published. That Officer planned a robbery and managed to get his friend killed and then became involved with the friend's wife in the script. This is a real scandal that has hung over Gene Morrow, so did the script fit? I think I could have followed a lot better if I had read Book One and Two which I recommend you do. But the expressions of the time frame are just "swell."

I like film noirs with a lot of mystery and characters. So, the book was right up my alley, with another suspicious death adding to the background. This won't be to everyone's taste but the tidbits fed you of stars and the back production works of movies, will make it palatable. Certainly, the lines fed to Starlets with growing aspirations read well...just like in the Movies.

Blurb:

1939, Los Angeles. Lillian Frost is shocked when her friend, glamorous costume designer Edith Head, hands her the script to a new film that's about to start shooting. Streetlight Story is based on a true crime: the California Republic bank robbery of 1936. Lillian's beau, LAPD detective Gene Morrow, was one of the officers on the case; his partner, Teddy, was tragically shot dead.


It seems the scriptwriter has put Gene at the centre of a scandal, twisting fact with fiction - or has he? With Gene reluctant to talk about the case, the movie quickly becoming the hottest ticket in town, a suspicious death on the Paramount studio lot and the police reopening the investigation into Teddy's death, Lillian is determined to find answers. Can Lillian and Edith uncover the truth of what happened that fateful day and clear Gene's name?