The Dead Hollywood Moms Society: A Novel
by By Maracotta, Lindsay
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , Women Sleuths

In a town once described as the Sodom of the New World, the family craze is in full swing - movie stars posing pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair, powerhouse agents breast-feeding at Spago - giving rise to the latest show-biz phenomenon - the Hollywood mom.Lucy Freers, an animation filmmaker, is one of this new breed. Her marriage to the well-known Hollywood producer Kit Freers is developing widening rifts and her daughter, Chloe, seems to be learning her values from MTV. And when glamorous neighbor Julia Prentice is found naked and dead in Lucy's pool, the facade of her perfect life is irrevocably shattered. Desperate to restore some normalcy to her life and to unlock the puzzle behind wild Julia's demise, Lucy submerges herself beneath the veneer of family values in Hollywood. In the course of her investigation, she has a brush with an affair with a sexy young screenwriter and an even closer brush with death as she delves into a world where there lurk as many unexpected plot twists as in any movie.