Sophie Lark’s STARLET is a dramatic mystery that takes place during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Alice Bloom has to watch what she says when having coffee with Hedda Hopper, wonders what she will discover from a tense encounter with Bugsy Malone and try to please the temperamental Cecil B. DeMille landing in his major motion picture without a day of acting experience.
The novel has a rich variety of characters that each bring a piece of the period to the story. As I look back, I realized there were really quite a few people to keep track of, but they were each had that unique link to the past that made them memorable. Patrolman Jack Wood provides the sultry chemistry with Alice and we impatient wait to see if anything will come of it.
This is a mystery with creative twists. Any good mystery reader is trying to narrow down the suspects as they go along, but you cannot help but be surprised where this story goes. After each “aha!” moment another layer of intrigue instead of clarity arrives.
This is not one of Sophie Lark’s usual dark romance novels - and it not supposed to be. It is more like an elegant glide through an Art Deco hotel lobby with soft notes of jazz filtering out of the lounge. The mood created by the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music is the perfect backdrop to this story.
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