Night Night, Sleep Tight
Hallie Ephron
Morrow, Mar 24 2015, $26.99
ISBN 9780062117632
Screenwriters Arthur and Gloria Unger were considered among the
elite in their profession; but by 1985 the divorced couple could only be
involved in a where are they now script.
Gloria moved into a desert Buddhist retreat near Twentynine Palms while
Arthur kept their Beverly Hills home, but no longer can afford the place. Their crippled (from a car accident) adult
daughter Deirdre drives up from San Diego to help her dad sell the house. Instead of her father’s greeting; she, her
brother Henry and his two Rottweilers find Arthur dead in his pool.
Over two decades earlier teenager Deirdre’s BFF Joelen Nichol
confessed to killing her actress mother Bunny’s abusive boyfriend Tito Acevedo. As the paramedics and cops arrive, Joelen
comes insisting she has an appointment with Arthur. Detective Martinez leads the investigation
into the unaccompanied death; Deirdre also seeks the truth.
Hallie Ephron writes a gripping whodunit filled with viable twists
especially an award winning final spin.
As the audience obtains a taste of 1980s and older Hollywood through the
key players, the subplots cleverly converge into one of the best mysteries of
the year.
Harriet Klausner
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