Mystery in the Title

Mystery in the Title

Will/ Ferguson Ferguson

Book - 2024

Miranda Abbott, actor, will once again be a star. After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series, Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and wants Miranda back. This time, she will be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week being filmed in Happy Rock. Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant, Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks it all seems a bit fishy. Things go from bad to worse when Miranda's costar makes a grand entrance at a media-packed press conference by crashing through the atrium window at the Duchess Hotel and being very much dead. The out-of-town cast and crew are horrified, but the great citizens of Happy Rock--including police chief Ned Buckley, gru...mpy bookstore owner and soon-to-be ex-husband Edgar Abbott, Bea of Bea's B&B, and the malodorous Melvin Jacobson of S.J. Fertilizer Supply--return to help solve the case in this second Miranda Abbott mystery.

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Subjects
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Actresses > Fiction.
Actors > Crimes against > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Cozy mysteries.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Cozy mysteries
Published
Harlequin Books 2024
Language
English
Main Author
Will/ Ferguson Ferguson (-)
Physical Description
336 p.
ISBN
9780778368175
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Review by Booklist Review

Miranda Abbott hasn't had a hit since her show, Pastor Fran Investigates, went off the air years ago. She's holed up in tiny Happy Rock, Oregon, where her ex(ish)-husband lives and where, unbelievably, the biggest break of her career appears. Producer Alan Zabic wants Miranda for his movie-of-the-week, which will also feature Harry Tomlin, a bona fide Hollywood star. And they're filming in Happy Rock. The cast and crew are all staying at the haunted Duchess Hotel, and during a press conference there, Harry crashes through the skylight in the atrium, dead. Miranda has some experience with murder (see I Only Read Murder, 2024), so she enlists her assistant Andrew in her investigation, despite the fact that police chief Ned thinks it was an accident. Then Alan recasts Harry's role with scandal-ridden action-star Poe Regal, with whom Miranda has a past. As production costs increase, it seems more and more likely that Ned is right, but Miranda is determined. This small-town cozy combines quirky characters, over-the-top situations, and fading Hollywood glamour in a winning combination.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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