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Title details for Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods - Available

Beverly Hills Dead

#2 in series

by Stuart Woods
Tony Roberts
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New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods revisits the characters and settings of his bestseller The Prince of Beverly Hills in this gripping novel of murder, political intrigue, and betrayal set in 1940s Hollywood, when the Red Scare meant anyone could be suspect.
Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills police officer, has risen to head of production of Centurion Studios. Professionally powerful and happily married–to the beautiful actress Glenna Gleason–Rick’s at the top of his game. A sun-drenched world of style, glamour, and desire, the movie studios are a place where anyone with ambition can rise to fame and fortune–or scandal. But now tensions are running high in Hollywood, and the Red Scare is a sign of bad things to come. The witch hunt is spreading, and with it come deception, murder, and dirty dealings that even the picture-perfect veneer of Hollywood can’t hide.
Set in a time of suspicion and uncertainty, BEVERLY HILLS DEAD is Stuart Woods’s best novel yet–a fast-paced and sexy thriller full of the nail-biting twists and startling turns that his fans always expect.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Rick Barron

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 15, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415947449
      • File size: 244126 KB
      • Duration: 08:28:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 5, 2007
      In this tepid sequel to 2004's The Prince of Beverly Hills
      , bestseller Woods revisits the late 1940s but fails to realistically evoke the era of the HUAC hearings, Hollywood blacklists and the waning days of big studios and the star system. Demoted L.A. detective Rick Barron recently quit the force to head security for Centurion Studios and has now morphed into the studio's head of production. Using this new power at the studio, Rick is in charge of selecting leading actors and scouting settings for a gritty western written by famous playwright Sidney Brooks. Centurion is a worthy stand-in for the typical studio of the era, but the Hollywood blacklist story and the untimely disappearance of one of the stars is familiar territory, and Woods doesn't break any new ground. Longtime fans of Woods's Stone Barrington series are sure to enjoy certain aspects of the story, but newcomers are likely to be disappointed.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      BEVERLY HILLS DEAD is an interesting, though oddly paced, novel about Hollywood in the early days of the Blacklist. Rick Barron, head of production at Centurion Studios, is the kind of noble guy who was very rare in those terrible times when careers were destroyed by even the suspicion of Communist ties. Tony Roberts once again performs Woods's work with a voice that sounds like it was meant for the 1940s. Roberts's hero sounds like a man who always knows what he's doing, and is always right. Though the death the title refers to comes late in the novel, the story is interesting and tailor-made for audio. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.