When mutilated Barbie dolls start showing up all over Las Vegas, ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is on the case. She's thirty - going on nineteen when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favour and go undercover at Teen Idol, a TV reality show the lieutenant's thirteen-year old daughter is appearing on. Unhappily, Temple knows several people associated with the production, including her romance novelist aunt from Manhattan and her sleazy nemesis Crawford Buchanan. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest under the punk persona of Xoe Chloe Ozone? Temple is on her own among twenty-eight unnatural blonds who'd kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen, and someone who'd just kill, period. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, her ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL, plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbour-slash-sometimes love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there's one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate.
Louie is on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care live to debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses.
- ISBN10 0765313995
- ISBN13 9780765313997
- Publish Date 15 May 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English