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    Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense
    Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense
    Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense
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    Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense

    Written by Hallie Ephron

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

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    From the award winning author of There Was an Old Woman comes a mystery tinged with Hollywood glamour, set in a town where fame and infamy are often interchangeable.

    Los Angeles 1986: When Deirdre Unger makes the drive from San Diego to Beverly Hills to help her father put his dilapidated house on the market, she is expecting to deal with his usual kvetching and dark moods. But she gets a lot more than she expected... In a cruel Sunset Boulevard-ian twist, Deirdre arrives home to find her father face down in his too-small swimming pool—dead.

    At first, Deirdre assumes her father’s death was a tragic accident. But the longer she stays in town the more Deirdre begins to suspect that this is merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making.

    The sudden re-surfacing of Deirdre’s childhood BFF Joelen Nichol—daughter of the famous and infamous Elenor “Bunny” Nichol—seems like more than a coincidence. Back in 1958, Joelen confessed to killing her movie star mother’s boyfriend. It just so happens that Deidre was at the Nichols’ house the night of the murder, which was also the night she suffered her own personal tragedy. Could all of these events be connected?

    As Deirdre struggles to uncover the truth about the past, is forced to confront a truth she has long not wanted to believe: even beneat the slick veneer of Beverly Hills, darkness can take hold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9780063038769
    Author

    Hallie Ephron

    Hallie Ephron is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Tell a Lie, Come and Find Me, There Was an Old Woman, and Night Night, Sleep Tight. For twelve years she was the crime fiction reviewer for the Boston Globe. The daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, she grew up in Beverly Hills, and lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      This was a decent mystery set in the Hollywood of the 80s. The plot had weird twists and turns, but they were totally appropriate for the decadence of the time period. The ending was not what I have wanted, but, again, it made perfect sense to the story. I enjoyed it very much.
    • 3/5
      An essentially worthless, but easy read, without suspense or thrills that has you wading hip deep in dropped names. If you lke your Hollywood fringes dirty, dip them here.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun read. Using the 1958 murder of Jonny Stompanato by Lana Turner's daughter, Hallie Ephron weaves an old fashioned tale of old Hollywood and murder.
    • 2/5
      This is a pretty mundane mystery whose protagonist is Deidre Unger, a child of the Beverly Hills movie crowd, now living in San Diego. She returns home to find her screenwriter father drowned in his pool. The mystery develops around whether or not the death was accidental or foul play. The backstory seems to be based loosely on the actual murder of Johnny Stompanato by Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner. Diedre is somehow involved in a similar murder and also may be implicated in her father’s death. She conveniently finds her father’s unfinished memoir that raises questions about the previous murder. Ephron includes some interesting twists but in general the plot seemed melodramatic and lacking in nuance. The cast of characters was flat and stereotypical (narcissistic movie actress, brutal boyfriend, faithful childhood friend, self-involved brother, devious Hollywood lawyer, childhood neighbor boy who conveniently is now an arson investigator with all kinds of investigative expertise, and new-age mother). Deirdre was permanently injured in an automobile accident and now uses a crutch. This plot element often seemed unrealistic as she jumped in and out of cars and climbed down steep embankments. A budding romance between a disabled woman and her childhood neighbor was a missed opportunity that ultimately was not handled well enough to be believable.