Hollywood Ending, the second book in her Detective by Day mystery series, was chosen a best mystery of 2018 by Suspense Magazine, Book Riot, and CrimeReads, which called it the most fun book of the year. It was also nominated for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and Barry award for Best Paperback Original. In addition to receiving starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, it won the Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Independent Publisher “IPPY” awards for best first novel. Garrett is also on the Board of Directors for Sisters in Crime and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color.Kellye Garrett’s first novel, Hollywood Homicide, was released by Midnight Ink in August 2017 and was named one of BookBub’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Kellye Garrett is an author whose works include Hollywood Homicide and Like a Sister. So why is no one listening to her?ĭespite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s darkest secrets-or ending up dead herself. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street.
A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.īut Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News. “I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. No one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead-except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.
Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 46 minutes
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