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Book Review of Cheating at Solitaire (Gregor Demarkian, Bk 23)

Cheating at Solitaire (Gregor Demarkian, Bk 23)
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The small, exclusive Massachusetts island of Margaret's Harbor gets its fifteen minutes of fame when aging teen stars Arrow Normand and Marcey Mandret pay a visit to local celebrity heiress, Kendra Rhode. The girls' drunken, disorderly behavior is being eaten up by the press until an even bigger media storm erupts. During a blizzard, Arrrow finds herself staggering around town, covered in blood and incoherently drunk. Meanwhile, her actor-boyfriend has been found shot dead in the front seat of a crashed truck. Now Arrow is cast as the only suspect in the crime and she can't remember a thing about the night in question. Enter former F.B.I. agent Gregor Demarkian, who's flown in from Philadelphia to review the charges against Arrow. What he finds is a case with little evidence, an insatiable paparazzi, and a mare's nest of motives in what may be the most confusing, twisted role of Demarkian's lifetime.