Man Who Couldn't Miss

<p><strong>Finalist for the Nero Award!</strong></p><p><strong>He's one of my very favorites: a novelist whose champagne-fizzy mysteries--as winning as the madcap adventures of Carl Hiaasen as hilarious as Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series--tickle the brain heart and funny bone in equal measure. -A.J. Finn <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Woman in the Window</em></strong></p><p><strong>In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series Stewart Hoagy Hoag and his beloved basset hound Lulu investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse.</strong></p><p>Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart Hoagy Hoag has chronicled the rise fall and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut novel Hoagy has found inspiration again. Ensconced with his faithful but cowardly basset hound Lulu on a Connecticut farm belonging to his ex-wife Oscar-winning actress Merilee Nash he's busy working on a new novel. He's even holding out hope that he and Merilee might get together again. Life is simple and fulfilling--which of course means it's time for complications to set in....</p><p>When the police call to ask if he knows the whereabouts of a man named R.J. Romero Hoagy learns of a dark secret from his ex-wife's past. It's already a stressful time for Merilee who's directing a gala benefit production of <em>Private</em> <em>Lives</em> to rescue the famed but dilapidated Sherbourne Playhouse where the likes of Katherine Hepburn Marlon Brando and Merilee herself made their professional stage debuts. Her reputation as well as the playhouse's future is at stake. The cast features three of Merilee's equally famous Oscar-winning classmates from the Yale School of Drama. But it turns out that there's more linking them to each other--and to their fellow Yale alum R.J.--than their alma mater. When one of the cast is found murdered it will take Hoagy's sleuthing skills and Lulu's infallible nose to sniff out the truth...before someone else faces the final curtain call.<strong></strong></p><p> </p>