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Where the reality Lies is a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and incredible sex—a sensual, sardonic, neo-Dickensian thriller in which a latter-day Alice careens through the seductive Wonderland of New York and Los Angeles in the dark heart of the 1970s.
This novel of intrigue speeds in one vivid setting to some other, all of them factually real even as they can be fantastically surreal: a clandestine club in Disneyland with a dazzlingly well stocked bar; a dizzying Shangri-La of any castle hidden away in Burbank; a drive-in movie theater nestled below the most chic streets of midtown Manhattan; an elegant table for four perched thirty thousand feet above the earth.
Written by Edgar, Tony, and Grammy Award winner Rupert Holmes (who first came to public attention in the mid-seventies as a singer and writer of story songs), Where the Truth Lies will wine and dine you in wickedly whimsical company, all the while luring you into a labyrinth of ever-sharpening bends and darkening corners.
The tale is told by O’Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews and bent on unearthing secrets way back when buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. Both of these highly desirable men, once inseparable (and insatiable where women were concerned), were driven apart with a bizarre and unexplained death which may have cast one of these as a murderer.
As the tart-tongued, eye-catching O’Connor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery, she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men, knowing more about them than they realize and significantly less than she might like, but increasingly fearful that she now knows much too much.
At once funny, frightening, delightful, and disturbing as it restores the opulent Hollywood and Manhattan of the seventies with their garish glory, Where the Truth Lies drops its veils such as a giddy and voluptuous Salome who knows not what reward or punishment awaits her when she actually is finally naked. It's the work of any master storyteller and wit towards the top of his form.
From the Hardcover edition.
