Penny Pence Smith
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Meredith Ogden is at the top of her game in Hollywood as Legwoman (assistant in modern terms) to Bettina Grant, the country's most widely read, celebrity gossip columnist. But, life changes for the 36-year-old journalist when she arrives for work at Grant's Bel Air home-office on a December morning in 1983 to find her famous boss dead, murdered. A book manuscript lies on the floor next to the deathbed. Partnering with High-Profile crimes detective...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in an abandoned house in California's high desert. Buried in a purse along with her is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden finds herself, before dawn, aboard a private plane enroute to a New Mexico movie location where the son of the film's star has died of an overdose. The film's director, Meredith's old friend and former lover, has implored her to come to the location, write a "fair, truthful and straight forward" story ahead of rumor and innuendo. Against her better judgment she agrees. Her unfolding journey of drugs, danger and drama...
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Meredith Ogden accepts a network invitation to substitute short-term for the cohost of America's most popular morning TV show from New York, It's A New Day. A glamorous diversion from her L.A. based print journalist duties covering the entertainment industry , she encounters network television politics, an international news reporting idol, the jealousy of her temporary cohost, and impresses network brass. And, becomes the target of an unseen predator...