Publisher Description

In this next pulse-racing instalment to an award-winning mystery series, Tennyson Hardwick faces his most challenging case yet. When the actor-turned-sleuth is filming his part in a television detective series in South Beach, Florida, his family join him on set. When his daughter's friend goes mysteriously missing and later washes ashore, the authorities fear the death is connected to a highly dangerous serial killer. Tennyson believes he knows who the killer is, but the suspect disappears...or so he thinks. Soon Tennyson and his family are in grave danger.

Author Biography

Blair Underwood is an author and award-winning actor, director, and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Tananarive Due is an American Book Award-winning, Essence bestselling author of My Soul to Keep, Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, and Joplin's Ghost. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Steven Barnes is an award-winning author of twenty-three novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Cestus Deception.

Review

"A sizzling mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end." --Essence
"Gritty. Hollywood mystery that's full of intrigue." --Ebony
"Hold on, there's bound to be some turbulence." --The Washington Post
"Seamlessly entertaining." --Publishers Weekly
"The pace is taut, the dialogue is snappy, and it's hard not to fall for Underwood's fallen hero." --Entertainment Weekly

Review Quote

"The pace is taut, the dialogue is snappy, and it's hard not to fall for Underwood's fallen hero." -- Entertainment Weekly

Excerpt from Book

ALL ACTORS DREAM of a meeting that will change our lives forever, but I didn''t dare hope that Gustavo Escobar would be mine. Even my agent had no idea why Escobar had called me. Escobar was an Oscar-nominated director on a hot streak, and I was lucky to have a job playing a corrupt lawyer on one of the last surviving soap operas. After twenty years in the industry, I no longer believed in the Big Bang. My microscopic part in a respected film set during the Harlem Renaissance, Lenox Avenue , hadn''t done much for my career. And the last two Hollywood heavy hitters who had contacted me--both women--craved skills that had nothing to do with my acting. Let''s just say I was wary of calls from powerful strangers. So when Escobar hadn''t shown up by nine o''clock for our eight thirty dinner meeting, I was sorry I had agreed to meet him without more questions. Once again, the joke was on me. But it was hard to nurse a bad mood inside La Habana. La Habana was L.A.''s new ethnic restaurant du jour, modeled after a 1930s Cuban supper club. That night, a full orchestra played a rousing rumba against colorful walls splashed with artificially aged murals of palm trees and revelers in old-fashioned Cuban dress. Black-and-white footage of bandleaders Beny Mor

Description for Sales People

The eagerly-awaited next instalment in the sizzling Tennyson Hardwick chronicles. Mixes the glamour of celebrity life and show business with the suspense of a detective story. Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes are an award-winning author team.

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