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Death By Hollywood: A Novel
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Death By Hollywood: A Novel
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Death By Hollywood: A Novel

Written by Steven Bochco

Narrated by Charles Kahlenberg

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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In his sizzling first novel, the creator of L.A. Law and NYPD Blue plunges a down-on-his-luck Hollywood writer into the thick of a murder investigation – which he uses to get better material for his screenplay. When Bobby Newman spies upon his neighbors one day through his $4,000 telescope, he sees a beautiful woman making love to a handsome actor named Ramon. But when their pillow talk turns sour, Bobby watches as she bludgeons her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Instead of reporting it to the police, Bobby decides to write about it – and to turn investigator himself. But he does more than sneak into the dead man’s house and steal incriminating video tapes. In this Hollywood funhouse, only the most manipulative will survive.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 4, 2003
ISBN9780736698467
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Death By Hollywood: A Novel
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Steven Bochco

Steven Bochco is the winner of ten Emmy Awards. He was the first producer/writer to receive the Writer's Guild Career Achievement Award and the BAFTA Fellowship Award for his outstanding contribution to his craft.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Parts of this book gave me the idea that it was a compilation of all the plots Bochco never found a place for. While reading it, I kept thinking I should abandon it but didn't and in the end was rewarded. It was certainly different.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The story I want to tell you involves, among other things, a screenwriter whose career is fading out more than it's fading in, a billionaire's wife, and a murder - which means, of course, there's also a cop.Steven Bochco, creator of "Hill Street Blues", "LA Law" and "NYPD Blue", is a Hollywood insider and has written an extremely entertaining murder story with a twist in its tail.Narrated by an agent, it is the story of a murder of an actor and its aftermath. One of the agent's clients, screenwriter Bobby Newman, is spying on his neighbours through a telescope when he sees the murder being committed, but rather than calling 911 to report it, he decides to use it as the basis of a new screenplay.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Highly recommended by The Daily Mirror - so I should have known better. However, it only took me a couple of hours to steam through this predictable, poorly constructed novel. I'll put my time to better use in the future.There are some good ideas in here, nuggets buried in dung. It's the execution that grates - the amatuerish writing style, the constant tangents, the coarse language; compared to "The Player", there's no heart to the story, and the characters are laughably one-dimensional.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I won't read a more entertaining book this year, that's for sure. This whipped along at pace, and had me laughing out loud at the cynical observations on people and life in general, although the author couldn't seem to resist fitting in an old joke about every ten pages for laughs. It was almost like he had a formula, where if he hadn't struck a laugh after a certain point, then stick in an oldy but goody. Still, it was one of the few books where I couldn't sense or guess the outcome, where the characters and plot took some surprising twists and where "I found myself putting the book down to make it last longer." And its the first book I can say that cliché about in literally years. Therefore ten out of ten.