Murder of a Movie Star: A Posie Parker Mystery (The Posie Parker Mystery Series)

LIGHTS, CAMERA, MURDER London, 1923 As England swelters during the hottest summer on record, Posie Parker, Private Detective, is summoned to Worton Hall Film Studios, where she steps into the heart of a sinister new mystery. Silvia Hanro, the famously beautiful movie star, has received death threats alongside her morning coffee, and Posie is tasked with protecting her. Aided by her good friends Lady Dolly Cardigeon and Chief Inspector Ricard Lovelace, Posie soon realises that behind the cheap canvas sets and the dreamy glamour of Worton Hall Studios a dreadful secret lays buried, and traitors lurk everywhere. And then, good as their word, the killer strikes... Can Posie unravel the clues and uncover the murderer before they kill again? This is a stylish Golden Age of Crime mystery which will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie and Downton Abbey . 'Murder of a Movie Star' is the fifth book in the Posie Parker Mystery Series, although the novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story in its own right. As London bakes during a heatwave, Posie Parker is all alone, feeling as thundery as the storm clouds above. But when she's summoned to Worton Hall, the fashionable film studios, Posie finds her hands are suddenly very full. And there's trouble brewing. Silvia Hanro, the famous movie star, has received death threats, not to mention grisly souvenirs, alongside her morning coffee. Tasked with protecting the movie star, and aided by her friends Lady Dolly Cardigion and Chief Inspector Lovelace, Posie sets out to uncover the truth behind the threats, with a list of suspects which includes a famous film director, a heart-throb male movie star, a known stalker and a criminally-convicted suffragette. But nothing is quite as it seems . . . "As England swelters during the hottest summer on record, Posie Parker, Private Detective, is summoned to Worton Hall Film Studios, where she steps into the heart of a sinister new mystery. Silvia Hanro, the famously beautiful movie star, has received death threats alongside her morning coffee, and Posie is tasked with protecting her. Aided by her good friends Lady Dolly Cardigeon and Chief Inspector Richard Lovelace, Posie soon realises that behind the cheap canvas sets and the dreamy glamour of Worton Hall Studios a dreadful secret lays buried, and traitors lurk everywhere."--Amazon