Hollywood Buzz

By: Margit Liesche

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Pucci Lewis was used to ferrying fighter planes and to undercover work. But in the dark hours of World War II, she is dispatched to Hollywood, where big stars and studio moguls are working with Washington to merge entertainment and propaganda.

A documentary on the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) is underway, and Pucci is stepping in for a sister WASP who has been hospitalized after her plane was sabotaged. When a big-name director dies, possibly murdered by Nazi operatives, military intelligence asks Pucci to learn what she can from the inside. She has her suspicions about the so-called housekeeper of Bela Lugosi, a rising starlet with a history with the Hungarian resistance, but Pucci doesn't trust the girl. Pucci will have to maneuver through movieland and its narcissistic denizens to find the truth.

©2009 Margit Liesche (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Engaging....Liesche provides plenty of interesting WASP lore while deftly mixing the real and imagined." ( Publishers Weekly)