There's no shortage of tinsel in bestselling author Robert S. Levinson's tenth mystery-thriller set in 1930s Hollywood.

Phony Tinsel starts off when adored film star Sarah Darling digs her claws into Charlie Dickens a naive quick-tempered screenwriter desperate for success. He's easily seduced into Sarah's scheme to murder her husband skirt-chasing producer-director Max Moonglow.

There's romance too as Charlie juggles his emotions between conniving ingenue Polly Wilde and Robin Moon a missing migrant worker he's vowed to rescue from the harsh realities of life beyond...

Newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife,
Sex Queen of the Soaps Stevie Marriner, are back.
It s decades ago, when the internet was in its infancy.
Neil is summoned to the apartment of actor Roddy Donaldson, leader of the Diapered Dozen gang of teenage movie stars, by condo manager Sharon Glenn. Roddy is in bed clinging to life alongside two dead girls, no memory of who they are or how they got there. Evidence points to him as their killer.
At the urging of Roddy s mother, a prominent casting director, Neil chases after the truth, encountering a motley cast of...