Star Struck

Nancy Baker Jacobs. Five Star (ME), $26.95 (327pp) ISBN 978-0-7862-4171-2

When Shane King, a Hollywood ""baby mogul"" and the son of one of Hollywood Star reporter Quinn Collins's former lovers, is found dead of a heroin overdose after vowing never to touch the stuff Quinn grudgingly agrees to play amateur detective. Nobody's talking, though, and when one of Shane's friends dies in a suspicious car crash, Quinn begins to suspect a larger plot, which might include the cover-up of a long-ago crime and the scions of prominent local families in Nancy Baker Jacobs's Star Struck: A Quinn Collins Mystery, the first installment in a new series. (Five Star, $25.95 237p ISBN 0-7862-4171-3)

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