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A map to paradise [LP]

"1956, Malibu, California. Something is not right on Paradise Circle With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, out-of-work starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor and successful screenwriter, Elwood, but his agoraphobia only allows for...

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Main Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.
Subjects:
Actresses > Fiction.
Women household employees > Fiction.
Neighbors > Fiction.
Polish Americans > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Agoraphobia > Fiction.
Anti-communist movements > United States > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Malibu (Calif.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
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Summary:"1956, Malibu, California. Something is not right on Paradise Circle With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, out-of-work starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor and successful screenwriter, Elwood, but his agoraphobia only allows for short conversations through the windows. He's the closest thing she has to a friend in her exile, however, as she and her maid, Eva, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, rarely make conversation. Until they both happen to spot Elwood's sister-in-law and caretaker, June, digging in his rose garden one morning just before dawn. After that, they don't see Elwood at all anymore. Where could a man who never leaves the house possibly have gone? Has something happened to Elwood? The two women can't help trying to find out. But as they sneak up on and into June's life, they discover an unexpected secret, and then a shared goal that's even more startling"--
Physical Description:495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN:9781420521573
1420521578
Author Notes:In 1995, Susan Meissner was working as a part-time reporter for a county newspaper. In 1998, she was named editor of the Mountain Lake/Butterfield Observer Advocate, the town's weekly paper. The paper was named the Best Weekly Newspaper in Minnesota by the Minnesota Newspaper Association in 2002. She retired later that year to write her first book, Why the Sky is Blue, which was published in 2004. Her other books include The Girl in the Glass, The Shape of Mercy, In All Deep Places, and A Fall of Marigolds.

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