The Dead Celeb (Lucy Freers Mysteries)

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Summary: More than just a mystery
Review: I love this character! Lucy is smart and funny and I loved the other books as well. The thing is that after reading this book - I too felt like a Hollywood insider! Don't know what that other person was thinking. This is a fun book and so are the others! When is the next one? It would make a great series of movies or TV! That would be way cool.

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Summary: Bitingly funny and insider fresh
Review: I love this character! Lucy is smart and funny and I loved the other books as well. The thing is that after reading this book - I too felt like a Hollywood insider! Don't know what that other person was thinking. This is a fun book and so are the others! When is the next one? It would make a great series of movies or TV! That would be way cool.

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Summary: More than just a mystery
Review: The Dead Celeb is a witty and engaging mystery, but what the critics seem to have overlooked is that it's also one of the most savagely skilled fictional eviscerations of Hollywood ever penned. Maracotta's tale is a mordant parable of Hollywood's awful treatment of women, but it's anything but PC: its great strength, in fact, is the way it reveals the complicity of these women in their own debasement. Ferocious, literate and funny throughout, this is a fine choice if you really want to understand the mindset of the movie business. The whole Lucy Freers series deserves to be much better known.

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Summary: The funniest book I've read in years!!
Review: The world already has far too much pop culture, media events and Jerry Springer Shows. This was not a true mystery but instead an excuse to drop names and take an uncritical look at the movie industry. A book about today's trashy culture diguised as a mystery can't help but be trashy itself when it takes no solid veiwpoint about anything. God forbid they'll probably make a movie out of it next year!

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Summary: The funniest book I've read in years!!
Review: There was something funny on every page. I couldn't put it down and had to read it in one sitting. Marcotta's characters are vivid, absolutely real, and right on. I'm on my way to reading the other two in the series. A definite recommend.