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Murder at Heartbreak Hospital
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About the Book"Heartbreak Hospital" is one of the most popular TV soap operas, an endless saga of life and death, love and hatred: to many of its fans, the characters seem much more real than the actors who play them. The character everyone loves to hate is Andrea Harmon, the soap's classic Bitch, played by Sunday Tyler––a ruthless, demanding, manipulative actress who has alienated everyone connected with the show. The only person who has seen Sunday's softer side is Bill Troy of the New York Police Department Movie/TV Unit, who is inevitably drawn into the case when Sunday is murdered, and no one has a satisfactory alibi. Reviews". . . archly amusing. . . . Even the final twists are faithful to [the] sudsy formula. . . ."––Kirkus "Wry humor, dramatic pauses, real and imagined conflicts, and ever-metamorphosing sub-plots."––Library Journal "Slesar nails them all-from the tyrannical star who makes everyone's life a misery to the head writer who keeps trying to write her out of the show."––New York Times Book Review "Slesar does an admirable job of making the bubbles worth watching as he mimics daytime TV's most outrageous hours."––Publishers Weekly "Slesar's mystery draws readers into the behind-the-scenes intrigue with the dead-on accuracy of one who's been there."––Soap Opera Weekly |
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