The Beverly Malibu, Katherine V. Forrest
The Beverly Malibu, Katherine V. Forrest
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The Beverly Malibu

Author: Katherine V. Forrest

Narrator: Kate Zane

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment building on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder.

No one appears particularly grieved by the shocking end to old-time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair. Surely not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu, who worked in the motion picture industry during the blacklist years and loathed Sinclair.

Nor is Sinclair's latest ex-wife grieved or even his children. Nor film actress and former paramour Maxine Marlowe. Nor Dudley Kincaid, whose brilliant screenplay Sinclair stole. Nor landlady Hazel Turner, whose husband, Jerome, is deceased but not exactly gone . . .

Kate sifts through tantalizing clues: a set of handcuffs fastening the murdered man to his bed of death; an album of a Wagner opera; a bourbon bottle lightly dosed with arsenic; a silver frame missing its photo.

She is also in a quandary over her fascination with Paula Grant, who discovered the murdered man. Until she is suddenly confounded by a wholly new aspect of herself uncovered by Aimee Grant, Paula Grant's remarkably beautiful young niece . . .

About Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery, and has been recently honored with the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jhosy

I have mixed feelings about this book. While the mystery and suspense was very well developed and as always, Kate conducted a good investigation I'm dissatisfied with the ending. I wish I had read more in detail how the police arrested the killer, didn't summarize resolutions. And Kate's new romance le......more

Goodreads review by Celina

Well, a woman who is a serial killer... the idea reminds me of Charlize Theron's movie "Monster" but the content is absolutely not related at all. I love Kate and it feels different, reading this book series. It feels real but the reality like not the today-kinda reality, at least not the larger pic......more

Goodreads review by Megan

There are Okay mysteries (Amateur City), Good mysteries (Murder at the Nightwood Bar), and Important mysteries. The Beverly Malibu, the third novel in the Kate Delafield series, is an Important mystery. Good, interesting, and well-drawn characters, a tight, well-paced plot, a plausible solution, and......more

Goodreads review by Stef

Really good book. In the middle of reading it I felt I had to Google the Hollywood Ten to know more about the context of some of the characters. It's a queer mystery so there is some romance for our heroine...that was slightly dodgy in my opinion but not for the reason she angsts over in the book.......more