The Hurricane Blonde: Lose yourself in the glittering allure and dark underbelly of Hollywood

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Hollywood loves a dead girl. She's always so photogenic.Salma Lowe is the offspring of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turnedguide on a true crime bus tour. She understands better than anyone howHollywood chews up and spits out starlets. Her own sister, Tawney, dubbedthe 'Hurricane Blonde', was murdered in the mid-'90s, and the case remainsunsolved. Salma herself has sworn off acting and just hopes to stay sober andout of trouble, until she discovers another dead woman with an uncannyresemblance to Tawney on the very property w here her sister once lived anddied.

Salma has to face the fact that a killer has struck again and with the policeinvestigation going now here, she needs to plunge herself back into LosAngeles' seductive allure to find the culprit. But the search for the truth willtake her deep into the rotten heart of Hollywood past and present, and intoher family's dark secrets.

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"A racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir." -Washington Post


"Sexy, twisted and dark, The Hurricane Blonde is both a gripping thriller and a scathing indictment of the industry of celebrity. Halley Sutton nails modern Hollywood Noir." -Janelle Brown, author of I'll Be You
"The Hurricane Blonde is a stunning achievement. Sutton has managed to create a murder mystery that feels as magnetic, timeless, and inextricable from Hollywood legend as the Black Dahlia. And yet Hurricane is more than simply a tragedy about a beautiful woman on the silver screen who met a grisly end-it's also, profoundly, a book about ruinous grief and letting go of the myths that have harmed us, as individuals and as a culture, no matter how glittering those myths may be. There's no one better at writing the dark side of Hollywood than Halley Sutton."-Ashley Winstead, author of The Last Housewife


"The Hurricane Blonde is a vivid, chilling noir steeped in L.A. sunshine and Hollywood lore. Sutton gives us a backstage pass to a former child actor's investigation of her sister's death-revealing a world that is both ruthlessly cruel and dazzlingly irresistible." -Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart


"The Hurricane Blonde is the biting, brilliant nepo baby noir you didn't know you needed. Halley Sutton's sophomore thriller reads like a riveting true-crime tour with your smartest, most macabre friend, rendered with such evocative detail that you'll feel California sun on your face and feminist rage in your heart with every turn of the page." -Layne Fargo, author of They Never Learn


"The Hurricane Blonde is a splashy thrill ride through the dark side of Hollywood. Sutton has delivered a glitzy noir and a gripping crime story. Empowering, engaging, and a worthy addition to the Los Angeles canon." -Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women and Sing Her Down


"Peopled with all the heroes and villains you think you know, this engrossing thriller captures LA in all her guises and packs a chilling message about the inherent victimhood of female stardom." -Eliza Jane Brazier, author of Girls and Their Horses


"Sutton's incisive writing captures both the allure and dark side of LA. A must-read for anyone drawn to Hollywood true crime." -Vera Kurian, author of Never Saw Me Coming

Author Bio

Halley Sutton is also the author of The Lady Upstairs. Awriter and editor, she lives in Los Angeles, where she spends her time chasingdown noir and Hollywood trivia. She holds a bachelor's degree in creativewriting from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a master's degree inwriting from Otis College of Art and Design. Her writing has appeared inDaily Beast, CrimeReads, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more.