The hurricane blonde
(Book)

Includes discussion guide and a conversation with the author.

Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely ends. Salma knows better than anyone that a tragic death is the surest path to stardom. Her own sister, Tawney, dubbed the "Hurricane Blonde" for her off-camera antics, was murdered in the mid-'90s, and the case remains unsolved. Salma herself has sworn off acting and just hopes to stay out of trouble...until a real dead body is discovered on her tour, on the property where her sister once lived. Salma soon realizes something uncanny: it's not just that this woman is dead at her sister's address--she also looks just like her, and is wearing Tawney's distinctive hair clip. When the police investigation goes nowhere, Salma has no choice but to plunge herself back into the world she left behind to search for her sister's killer...who may have just struck again. But the search for the truth will take her deep into the rot of Hollywood past and present, into her family's own long-buried and terrible secrets.