Sunset West-Guns, Grit and Gossip

In this sequel to The Last Legwoman-A Novel of Hollywood, Murder and Gossip!, 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 makes for juicy news stories but threatens day-to-day life of everyone around her including T.K. Raymond, detective specializing in high profile celebrity crimes with whom she lives. Pulled into the gossip columnist's web of international drugs and deceit he also deals with his own shadowed journey in a criminal world.  Through it all, traditional Hollywood gossip sparkles along-and evolves as Meredith and her colleagues strive to stay alive, and vital in the "new" Hollywood.