Dazzled - Five Star Mystery Series Author:Maxine Nunes Nikki Easton had been a teenage runaway, but as she struggles to build a life in LA and a career in acting, a single event--the disappearance of her closest friend Darla Ward--draws her into a world more perilous than the life she had escaped. — During a late summer heat wave, four people are murdered in the Hollywood Hills, and Darla might be on... more »e of the victims. Nikki is no stranger to life's brutality, but she has never seen anything like the battered girl on the gurney at the morgue. Could this face, so bruised it looks barely human, really be Darla, a talented beauty on the verge of stardom?
In her relentless search for the truth, Nikki discovers the hidden side of her friend's life, laying bare secrets buried before Darla was born, and uncovering widening layers of corruption that reach far beyond the film world to the highest levels of government.« less