Murder in a Hot Flash: A Charlie Greene Mystery - Hardcover

Millhiser, Marlys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883402298 ISBN 13: 9781883402297

Publisher: Otto Penzler Books, 1995

Synopsis

Feisty, beleaguered Hollywood literary agent and single mom Charlie Greene goes to Utah to help Edwina, her volatile mother--a biologist accused of doing away with a horror film director whose filming had been damaging the environment.

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In her action-packed third adventure, (following Death of the Office Witch), high-spirited Hollywood literary agent Charlie Greene tries to help her mother, biology professor Edwina, and ends up tangling perilously with murderers, environmentalists, desert rats (human and rodent) and superstars in the Utah desert. Edwina, consulting on a documentary, has come to blows with a director who is shooting a science-fiction film nearby. She's also at professional odds with the producer/director of the documentary. Charlie agrees to talk to the documentary director at the film site where she meets the handsome movie star (and active environmentalist) who is narrating the documentary. When the SF director is murdered and Edwina is arrested, Charlie and the superstar team up to find the real killer, in the process becoming cliff-hangers (they're rescued by helicopter) and setting off rumors of romance. More murders and a series of chills and spills fitting to the rugged terrain follow. Even better, however, is Millhiser's accurate and often hilarious limning of the treacherous territory between mothers and daughters, Edwina, Charlie and Charlie's teenage daughter. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Dr. Edwina Green, biological consultant for a documentary being filmed near Moab, Utah, and vehement proponent of the environment, feels ignored by her director. So she calls in daughter Charlie Green, a Beverly Hills literary agent (see Death of the Office Witch, LJ 11/1/93). Charlie feels put upon until someone kills the ecologically blind director of a neighboring commercial film crew and the sheriff arrests Edwina. Suspense arises from revelatory subplots and from frequent descriptions of natural surroundings, including Edwina's local animal friends. Short, lively paragraphs, likable protagonists, and wry humor make this a hit.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Otto Penzler Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883402298
• ISBN 13: 9781883402297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252