Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries)

Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30-going-on-19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants--including her own 13 year old daughter--by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas. Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion is bad enough, but Temple is dismayed to discover her professional nemesis is in charge of PR for Teen Idol-and, even worse, her romance novelist aunt has flown in from New York to be a judge. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest with a black dye job to complement her new punk persona, Xoë Chloë Ozone? Temple is on her own among 28 unnatural blonds, who all say they'd kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen... and one of them might actually do it. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, Temple's ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbor-slash-sometime love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there's one one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate. Louie is already on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

what's A Girl To Do When She's Forced To Be, Well, A Girl?

that's What's Hot Shot Freelance Pr Woman And Amateur Detective Temple Barr Has To Do When As A Favor To Top Cop Carmen Molina She Goes Undercover At teen Queen, The Newest Pop Star-search Reality Tv Show, All In The Hopes Of Protecting Molina's 13-year Old Daughter.

it's No Picnic Trying To Be A Teenager Again, Even After A Punk Makeover. To Make Matters Worse, Temple's In Danger Of Being Uncovered By The Show's Celebrity Judges, Including Her Romance Novelist Aunt And Her Arch-enemy, Crawford Buchanan. And Just To Make Life More Interesting There Are Her Fellow Contestants, Unnatural Blondes Aplenty Who Are All Too Willing To Sabotage And Backstab Their Way To The Top.

unfortunately, Someone Has A Real knife Out For Las Vegas's Young Women, And It's Up To Temple And Her Underfoot Undercover Partner, Midnight Louie, To Ferret Out The Killer.

publishers Weekly

thirty-year-old Temple Barr, Las Vegas Pr Whiz And Amateur Sleuth, Goes Undercover As 19-year-old Xoe Chloe Ozone On A Reality Tv Show, Teen Idol, In Douglas's 17th Midnight Louie Caper (after 2004's Cat In An Orange Twist), One Of The Stronger, Leaner Entries In This Crime-solving Cat Series. Declining To Compete For Teen Pet Idol, Feline Pi Midnight Louie Decides To Help Temple Protect Homicide Lieutenant C.r. Molina's 13-year-old Daughter, Mariah, Who's Competing For The Tween Division Title, From A Stalker. Held At A Spooky Mansion, Scene Of An Old Unsolved Crime, The Contest Features Eccentric Judges, Paris Hilton Wannabes, A Ghostly Elvis And Witty Reflections On Beauty/reality Showbiz. Amid Multiple Murders, Douglas Hints At Complications To Come For Molina As She Deals With A New Admirer And Her Ex-lover, Mariah's Dad. Meanwhile, Temple Struggles To Resolve A Deliciously Romantic Dilemma That Should Thrill Fans Of Matt, The Divine Ex-priest, And Worry Devotees Of Her Other Major Suitor, Mystifying Max, Stage Magician On Hiatus. Agent, Howard Morhaim. (may 15) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30-going-on-19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants--including her own 13 year old daughter--by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas. Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion is bad enough, but Temple is dismayed to discover her professional nemesis is in charge of PR for Teen Idol-and, even worse, her romance novelist aunt has flown in from New York to be a judge. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest with a black dye job to complement her new punk persona, Xo & euml; Chlo & euml; Ozone' Temple is on her own among 28 unnatural blonds, who all say they'd kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen ... and one of them might actually do it. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, Temple's ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbor-slash-sometime love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there's one one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate. Louie is already on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied Noted for its delightfully tongue-in-cheek briskness, the indefatigable Midnight Louie series never seems to run out of steam. When Las Vegas public-relations ace and sometime amateur detective Temple Barr is approached by her worthy adversary, homicide detective Lieutenant Carmen Molina, to go undercover on a teen reality show, she initially balks at the request. Striking a bargain with Molina to lay off her former-spy and ex-magician -boyfriend, now you see him, now you don't, Max Kinsella, Temple adopts a suitably bizarre disguise, transforming herself into punk diva Xoe Chloe Ozone. Determined to nab the stalker threatening the teen contestants--including the lieutenant's precocious 13-year-old daughter--she and her streetwise feline sidekick, Midnight Louie, become embroiled in a series of deadly pranks and mishaps plaguing the Teen Queen set. As usual, suspense and mystery take a backseat to the zany humor, but who is complaining? Margaret Flanagan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved What's a Girl to do when she's forced to be, well, a girl? That's what's hot shot freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr has to do when as a favor to top cop Carmen Molina she goes undercover at Teen Queen , the newest pop star-search reality TV show, all in the hopes of protecting Molina's 13-year old daughter. It's no picnic trying to be a teenager again, even after a punk makeover. To make matters worse, Temple's in danger of being uncovered by the show's celebrity judges, including her romance novelist aunt and her arch-enemy, Crawford Buchanan. And just to make life more interesting there are her fellow contestants, unnatural blondes aplenty who are all too willing to sabotage and backstab their way to the top. Unfortunately, someone has a real knife out for Las Vegas's young women, and it's up to Temple and her underfoot undercover partner, Midnight Louie, to ferret out the killer. Temple Barr goes undercover at the newest pop-star search reality-TV show, "Teen Idol" because someone has a real knife out for Las Vegas' young women. She finds she is in danger of being uncovered not only by the celebrity judges, but also her arch enemy, Crawford Buchanan. Can she find the killer before everything comes unraveled? How sad that my singing voice is more scat than lyrics, for my personal theme song would have to be "There Is Nothing Like a Dame."