It’s Oscar night in Hollywood, and after years of climbing the entertainment ladder, media darling Meredith Johansen has finally taken home a gold statue.Across town, rookie Detective Patricia Norelli is working late with hopes of breaking through her own glass ceiling with a promotion in the LAPD.Their paths unexpectedly collide when Johansen is discovered dead in her Bel Air home, only hours … only hours after Oscar night festivities ended.
With one note but even fewer clues, authorities rule it a suicide. Norelli’s instinct says murder; a hunch worth risking a pending promotion to prove otherwise.
When a long list of suspects emerges, she and partner Detective Stuart Brown find themselves entangled in a chaotic series of lies. Trying to find the real killer amidst a web of deception, Norelli & Brown lose ground when a key suspect turns up dead.
Then in the middle of reworking hunches, Brown has to take paternity leave. Before he can return, Norelli gets too close to the truth and lands in the trap of a pathological serial killer.
If you like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, or John Sanford’s Lucas Davenport, you’ll enjoy David Temple’s page-turning Pat Norelli Thriller Series.
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A most interesting reading! The Poser has a well knit plot with quite a few twists and turns that make the reader stay glued to the book till the end. There´s a lot of action, mind games, mystery and crime, and underlying it all there´s a strong friendship and family relationships. The main character, the detective Pat Norelli, is strong willed, persistent, and good (or bad?) humoured and her partnership with Stuart make the duo lively, laughable and good at what they do. Hopefully there will be another book on these two characters as are they are too good together to be forgotten.
I received a free copy from the author/Bookfunnel and this is my honest review.
This book was a real roller coaster ride. Every time I thought I knew who the murderer was I was wrong. The characters in this book were riveting and complex. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone but this is a very good story. One you need to read with an open mind and not get caught up on false clues. Definitely recommend reading this book to other thriller fans. Very well written.
Your’re wrong! Guess again!
Intricate plot with enough twists to entertain the more jaded reader. Some characters are fairly normal, the rest are bizarre enough for the Hollywood setting to both amuse and repel. First work of Temple’s that I have read, recommend the read.
When the host of a TV gossip show winds up dead in her bed on Oscar night, Detective Pat Norelli and her team are there to piece together the story. In hunting the killer, she’ll face intrigue, blackmail, sex, alcohol and violence … and that’s just in her personal live.
I loved this Hollywood crime thriller. It’s chock full of spoiled, rich, Hollywood stars and wannabes who’ll do anything to get what they want . Norelli is a tough as nails investigator who’s not afraid to ruffle a few feathers and stir up the muck to find her killer -with all her flaws and insecurities, she’s a character it’s hard not to like .
This story offers painstaking police work that hearkens back to the best episodes of the TV cop shows of the past, a diabolical killer you won’t suspect, a supporting cast that quickly reveal the tarnish underneath the tinsel town glitz and action that’ll have you on the edge of your seat and frantically turning the pages to get to the shocking ending.
A rollicking good read.
Loved it!!
Not a bad read, but the characters and plotline weren’t interesting enough that I would buy another book by this author.
I just couldn’t get into it like I have others.
I have never panned an entire book in my life. However, this is the only one star I ever gave for I think sound reasons. I know it may be old fashioned for me to think the protaganists are better than the bad guys. In this book everyone is some degree of sleezy. The detective (Norelli) bends rules and is shallow. The bad guys (most of the characters other than Detective Norelli) are really people who all have severe character deficiencies. The plot is thin and not believable. Yes, I know Hollywood is sin city like Vegas, but if you want LA police novels read Connelly.