Henry Carter Hull

"A vivid, atmospheric mystery about 1951 Hollywood...this is a winner." -David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author In June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support her friend Max Jeffries who has found himself blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in Washington rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies. Edna first met Max when he worked on the 1927 Broadway production of Show Boat, and now he's brought his...

Jane Austen moves to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire to mourn her lost love, where she finds a large chest filled with the late Lord Harold Trowbridge's diaries, letters, and personal correspondence and orders to write a memoir of Trowbride, but before she can begin her writing, she finds a dead body and uncovers an even larger mystery than the one she is already dealing with.

Oy! to the world Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry....

Novelist Hannah Keller, a former Miami cop, finds a copy of her first book with margin notes that provide clues to the mystery of who killed her parents, but her attempts to investigate put her in the path of FBI agent Frank Sheffield, whose search for a psychopathic hit man seems to mesh with Hannah's case.