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Private Scandals
Private Scandals
Author: Nora Roberts
This deliciously scandalous novel tells us the secrets of the reigning queens of television talk shows, Deanna Reynolds and Angela Perkins. Their high-staked rivalry, fought with public smiles and private betrayals, is more than a ratings competition. It becomes an off-screen war when Deanna replaces Angela both on the air and behind the scenes ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425190388
ISBN-10: 0425190382
Publication Date: 8/5/2003
Pages: 416
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 93 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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MzSimpson avatar reviewed Private Scandals on + 51 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Deanna Reynolds and Angela Perkins are both smart, talented, attractive, and ambitious. The big difference between the two talk- show hosts is that Angela is an attention-hungry woman desperate to maintain her fading charms and worshipful audience at all costs, while Dee maintains her Midwestern values even as her Chicago-based show makes her a star and threatens Angela's in New York. Angela, who was once Dee's mentor, has never forgiven the younger woman for turning down her offer to come to New York with her. Even less forgivable is Dee's romance with Finn Riley, a footloose foreign correspondent and once Angela's lover. Finn, who coolly calls in exclusives from a crash-landing 747, shrugs off a bullet wound while he broadcasts live during a shootout, and indisputably earns the nickname ``Desert Hunk'' during the Gulf War, finds his match in the unbelievably beautiful, desirable, and sweet Deanna. While the two make seismic love on any available surface and Angela plots Dee's downfall in the ratings, a secret admirer (whose identity is more obvious than the author must have intended) writes her love notes. Then, one by one, he begins to kill off all the people who have hurt or betrayed her--and attempts to realize his insane dream of making Deanna entirely his own.
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Behind the glamour and pulse of television talk shows lies a story more sensational than any told on air. And here, the fierce rivalry of two ambitious women, fought with public smiles and private betrayals, is recounted with all the passion and power that have made Nora Roberts a New York Times best seller.
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I thought this was a pretty decent Nora Roberts book.
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Great book. Kept me guessing til the end.
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Dark secrets hide behind the brightest of stars.From the fly leaf
"Nora Roberts Private Scandals is right on target.She turns the world of television inside out and then outside in,all the while creating a plot of nail-biting suspence." Rex Reed
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Deabba Reynolds and Angelea Perkens are the reigning queens of afternoon talk shows, television personalitites who off screen competition has more at stake than ratings.
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Based in Chicago and New York - and Television talk shows - great suspense
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Nora Roberts is very entertainig in her stories She has never disappointed me.You will enjoy reading this book as I did very good reading.
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Great Nora Roberts book
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great story and keeps you guessing until the end
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very good
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Inside the world of television talk shows, an ambitious young woman is fighting to find her place in the spotlight. But dark secrets hide behind its brightest stars...
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secrets, that should stay secrets but as usual they don't and then the trouble starts. very good book!!!


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