Books by Renee Patrick and Complete Book Reviews
Renee Patrick. Forge, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8184-2
Set in 1937, Patrick’s upbeat, name-dropping debut starring real-life Hollywood costume designer Edith Head puts feminine cleverness, fashion sense, and social acumen front and center. The police suspect Edith and Lillian Frost, a department store...
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Renee Patrick. Forge, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8186-6
Set in December 1938, Patrick’s sassy second series novel (after 2016’s Design for Dying) takes the reader on an exhilarating ride through Hollywood in its heyday. Trouble may be brewing in Europe, but in Hollywood it seems to be business as usual....
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Renee Patrick. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8910-2
In Patrick’s well-paced third 1930s Hollywood mystery (after 2017’s Dangerous to Know), Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head slips her friend Lillian Frost, social secretary to a starstruck millionaire, the script of a film based on a real bank
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Renee Patrick. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8928-7
In Agatha finalist Patrick’s entertaining fourth 1930s Hollywood mystery (after 2020’s Script for Scandal), Marion Davies, the mistress of press baron William Randolph Hearst, asks Lillian Frost, the social secretary to a starstruck millionaire, and
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Renee Patrick. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5049-2
Patrick’s solid fifth Hollywood mystery (after 2021’s The Sharpest Needle) finds Lillian Frost, social secretary to wealthy movie maven Addison Rice, and Edith Head, Oscar-winning costume designer for Paramount Pictures, drawn into the cutthroat...
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