Deception

A Hollywood Mystery

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Pub Date 12 May 2020 | Archive Date 2 May 2020

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Description

The battle between good and evil is ill defined in the land of Hollywood. Rarely do kind, compassionate souls win the spoils of war which makes their rare victories all the sweeter.

Josh Sibley, singer/songwriter, is handsome, talented, smart and headed for oblivion. Alcohol provides relief when his demons threaten to overwhelm his every effort to break free of his past. When his friend Jennie Seger arranges for him to write songs for a multi-million-dollar feature, all his doubts and fears fall away, and he embraces the opportunity like a starving man who has found a bounteous feast during a famine. 

Lightning strikes his lonely heart in the form of singer/actress Lila Levy who is married to the producer of the movie and flaunts her sexuality at Josh knowing her breathtaking beauty more than makes up for her lack of talent. Knowing his love for Lila is doomed from the start, he overlooks her shortcomings and keeps his feelings under wraps as he teaches her to sing his songs. 

But this is Hollywood, and nothing is as it seems. Lila has secrets that Josh cannot begin to fathom and doesn’t want to know. When her husband Stan is murdered, Lila disappears and Josh is confronted by the woman determined to track her down - Sergeant Rosemaria Baker of the Beverly Hills Police Department. Rosemaria is the opposite of Lila; hates show business and considers Josh a delusional loser. When the cops track down Lila and bring her in, Lila declares herself innocent and the fight for the soul of Josh Sibley begins.

The battle between good and evil is ill defined in the land of Hollywood. Rarely do kind, compassionate souls win the spoils of war which makes their rare victories all the sweeter.

Josh Sibley...


Advance Praise

“Britt Lind has written an intriguing mystery filled with twists and turns that takes place in a world she knows well from every perspective.” – Carlyne Grager – Talent Representative and Owner of Dramatic Artists Agency Los Angeles and Seattle. 

“Britt Lind has written an intriguing mystery filled with twists and turns that takes place in a world she knows well from every perspective.” – Carlyne Grager – Talent Representative and Owner of...


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Featured Reviews

Hollywood – the heart of the movie industry. Who hasn’t dreamed of making it in Tinseltown? Envied the movie stars and the glamour surrounding them. Behind the polished façade, however, is a world of struggling actresses, alcoholism, drug addiction and murder…

Josh Sibley, a talented singer-song writer with a dark past, lands a job teaching Lila Levy, beautiful wife of successful movie director Stan Levy, to sing for a role in a new movie. Josh quickly gets infatuated with the alluring Lila and tries to control his feelings. A murder occurs and Lila is a suspect.

Rosemaria Baker, Sergeant at the Beverly Hills Police Department, and her colleagues are assigned to the murder case. The investigation raises a lot of questions regarding Lila, and reveals a side of her which is dark, very dark…

Britt Lind brilliantly interweaves past and present in her new ingenious mystery novel. With a long career as an actress in movies and TV-series, she has a lot of behind-the-scenes experiences from the Hollywood movie industry. Experiences which she uses to weave a compelling plot of murder and mayhem among the Hollywood glitterati.

If you like well-written mystery novels and are curious to know what happens behind the polished façade of the Hollywood movie industry, this book is for you. I’m sure Britt Lind has plenty of real-life experiences to use in more mystery novels about Rosemaria Baker, the Beverly Hills Police Department and Josh Sibley. I can hardly wait for the next.

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i really enjoyed this mystery, i liked going on this journey to figure out who did it. I really enjoyed the Hollywood setting and would enjoy reading a second book in the series.

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