Shooting Star - Hardcover

Green, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060179880 ISBN 13: 9780060179885

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1992

Synopsis

Now in her twenties and resuscitating her career with a new film, childhood film star Nyia Wyatt begins to suspect that someone is trying to kill her, and it is up to Harmon E. Bohland, a local detective, to protect her

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From Publishers Weekly

Within the improvisational world of avant-garde filmmaking, an up-and-coming young actress struggles for normalcy in this taut suspense story from Edgar Award nominee (for Shattered Moon ) Green. Nyiaok Wyatt is on location in Santa Fe when events in her life begin to parallel scenes in director Leonard Jacobs's film, as they had during the filming of their m previous collaboration , during which another actress was shot to death. Jacobs believes actors should become so immersed in their roles that the line between reality and celluloid blurs, but Nyia, who has been receiving letters from a seemingly demented fan, feels threatened, especially after she is shot at herself. To assuage her fears, Jacobs hires detective Harmon BohlandOK , who poses as an author writing about the director. Then another young actress drives off a cliff on the motorcycle Nyia was to have ridden. Since Nyia and the two dead women have all been Jacobs's leading ladies--on and off the set--Bohland wonders whom the killer is really aiming for. Green's captivating preoccupation with the distinction between real and screen life culminates when a video camera catches the murderer's inadvertent confession. Author tour.
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From Kirkus Reviews

A fraught-with-pretensions tale of movie mayhem from Green (Night Angel, 1989, etc.) in which life imitates art imitates life, etc. Here, actress Nyla Wyatt is currently working in Santa Fe with avant-garde director Leonard Jacobs, her former mentor and lover, as he improvises scene after scene of Trial and Error to reflect his cast's mishaps, obsessions, and fears. Then an actress who switches roles with Nyla is murdered (a similar fate befell another actress in a previous Jacobs/Nyla collaboration). Meanwhile, a crazy fan is escalating his demented pursuit of Nyla (first letters, then videotapes, then potshots at her car, etc.), and pi. Harm Bohland is called in to protect her. Harm suspects the director, his screenwriter wife, the assistant director, Nyla's agent, even her alcoholic, former star mother--everyone, in fact, but the guilty party. Several more will die before Harm and Nyla and the cops get the goods on the baddies--on film, of course. One more entry in the illusion-is-truth genre, meant to be tantalizing but, in this case, merely tedious. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060179880
• ISBN 13: 9780060179885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364