Star Quality

By: Jennifer Hall

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

For fans of Danielle Steel comes a story of violence, passion, suspense and murder among Hollywood lives gone wrong.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from ONCE INNOCENT by Jennifer Hall.

Hollywood 1965. A child hides in a dressing room closet and looks on as Dad murders Mom and celebrates with his mistress….Twenty-five years later, famous movie director Mark Bauer is casting Long Journey Home, his new war film, and unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that stir up the truth about what happened that terrible night—with devastating consequences. Sooner or later the past catches up with you—even in Hollywood.

p>Caught up in the whirlwind of casting for the movie Long Journey Home are two famous stars who are vying for star roles: Diana Holloway, who wants this as a chance to get the Oscar she lost out on 20 years earlier and Graham Denning, a rising young star who happens to be in love with Diana’s daughter, Kelly Holloway.

Behind the scenes like a master puppeteer pulling strings is the film’s money man, Mafia kingpin Paul Fontana, who pushes for the lead role to go to his spoiled daughter, daytime soap star Gabrielle Fontana Moore. He also wants a safe place to hide his wayward son Peter, an embarrassment to him who struggles with his sexual identity.

Dark clouds hang over this troubled movie production from day one. A woman is murdered filming the opening scene. The child who may have seen the murderer goes missing. What has become of the child-witness? Diana Holloway once worked with a rival star, Iris Larson, who drowned in a swimming pool years earlier under suspicious circumstances. Is there a connection between the swimming pool drowning and this death? When will the A-list Hollywood murders end?

Titles by Jennifer Hall

• ONCE INNOCENT
• STAR QUALITY

Reviews

"With nary a pause in her pell-mell narrative, this first-time author drives her teeming cast through murderous power struggles and glamour traps in Hollywood….Everyone has secrets and everyone makes enemies in this diverting Tinseltown tale."—Publishers Weekly

"For devotees of the romance genre, this first novel has everything...Hall's admiration for the novels of Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins, both in style and plot, is obvious."—Library Journal

About The Author

Jennifer Hall lives with her family in New York City. She started her career in publishing, but now spends her days writing. Some of her favorite things to do as a city-dwellers are visit museums, go to Broadway shows and people-watch. Her books appeal to readers of Danielle Steel, Candace Bushnell, Lauren Weisberger, Jackie Collins, and Sidney Sheldon. She can be reached at [e-mail].