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Books : Death In Daytime: A Soap Opera Mystery (SOAP OPERA MYSTERY)
Product Description: First in a fun new soap opera MYSTERY series—written by an emmy®-nominated soap star...
She’s bold. She’s beautiful. And she’s about to go to jail for murder...
Soap opera actress Alexis Peterson has starred in the nation’s top soap opera for almost 20 years. But her career takes a nose-dive when Marcy Blanchard is hired as the head writer. Little did Alexis realize that Marcy’s been holding a grudge all these years—and is ready to take her revenge.
So when Marcy turns up dead, bludgeoned to death with her Emmy®, no one is surprised that Alexis is the prime suspect. No one except Alexis, that is, who knows she has to take matters into her own hands if she wants to avoid being arrested for a crime she didn’t commit—and becoming the real killer’s next victim...
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Start
This is a good start to a new series that'll be enjoyed by any fan of daytime TV.
I did find Alex to be quite flighty -- all the emphasis on how much she loves her daughter, but carelessly running around trying to play amateur detective, putting herself and her loved ones at risk. And I also got a bit tired of the justification for Alex's amateur detective work being that she watches CSI. However, despite an obvious killer (there were only three characters that weren't either part of Alex's close circle or killed, and two of them were interrogated way too early for it to be them), the book was fun and I look forward to the next in the series.
Rating: - A fine murder mystery
Alexis is proud of the work she does on a popular daytime drama - but the new head writer is blaming her for stealing romance and is on a vendetta against her. When she confronts her nemesis and she's found murdered the next day, it's up to Alexis to investigate and free herself from being the prime suspect in this fine murder mystery recommended for libraries strong in murder mystery novels.
Rating: - A great book!
This was a very funny and interesting mystery. I could not put the book down until I was finished. I recommend this book for everyone who loves mysteries.
Rating: - fine amateur sleuth
She has worked on the daytime soap opera The Young Tide for over twenty years until recently it feels like a second home. The show acquired new head writer Marcy Blanchard who hates star Alexis Peterson for stealing her boyfriend two decades ago. She believes if Alexis didn't go out with her lover, he would have married her and they would have raised kids together. Instead she is totally alone living miserably but with plans to make Alexis' life even more miserable than hers.
When Marcy forgets to give Alexis her script, the actress decides enough and plans to have it out with her. When she enters the writer's office, she finds Marcy on the floor with her head bashed in. Alexis is the prime suspect because they had public fights witnessed by the TV crew and their history together. Unwilling to sit idly by, Alexis investigates and learns Marcy had a husband she divorced and a teen daughter. When Marcie's ex is murdered, someone cleverly designs the crime scene to make it look as if Alexis killed him. Alexis goes full speed to uncover the real culprit before she needs bail.
Readers get treated to the inside scoop of what happens at a popular soap opera off screen as Eileen Davidson uses her experiences on the Young and the Restless and the Bold and the Beautiful to create the background to this exciting, heady and enthralling mystery. The investigation is cleverly handled even if a frantic drama queen like Alexis probably should have hired a pro private investigator. Still with great characters, a fun look at soaping and an engaging whodunit, fans beyond the soaps will enjoy this fine amateur sleuth tale.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: - "My name is Alexis Peterson and I'm not a diva."
Current The Bold and the Beautiful star Eileen Davidson joins other daytime drama vets Harley Jane Kozak, Louise Shaffer, and Finola Hughes in adding "author" to her curriculum vitae. Death in Daytime is the first of a projected cozy mystery series (the second will be entitled Dial Emmy for Murder) starring Alexis Peterson. The intrepid Alex, narrator of these Soap Opera Mysteries, amateur sleuth out of the necessity of keeping herself out of jail, and heroine of course, happens to star in the The Yearning Tide, a fictional analogue for the the real soaps where Davidson has worked.
Naturally, none of the characters literally depict real persons, but soap fans might have fun trying to guess which real actor, writer, producer, or crew member inspired this or that aspect of Davidson's creations. For instance, it may not be too difficult to guess the actual head writer[s] who might have served as model[s] for Marcy Blanchard, the witch who hates Alex and wants to write out her popular character, Tiffany Benedict.
When Marcy buys the farm unnaturally, Alex becomes suspect prime. She and her CSI show consultant boyfriend poke into the possibilities themselves, leading Alex to another body. Meanwhile, one of the two L.A. detectives investigating the murders is a starry-eyed fan of The Yearning Tide and Tiffany and the other one and Alex begin to form a mutual attraction between their real life selves. But Alex, who has a three-year-old daughter and a devoted mother, is less interested in romance than in clearing her name and keeping herself from becoming the killer's next victim.
Alex is a kick: she, one guesses, is an alter ego of sorts of Davidson's. She is offended when people call her a "diva" saying, "I've never been a diva." She also bemoans a rumor about herself that claimed she was actually a man, and there is a chuckle in reading her annoyance at the ridiculousness of it all. Ah, the price of being a soap celebrity, real or fictional.
Davidson puts together a light, enjoyable read. The identity of the murderer isn't totally obvious -- always a plus. The structure of the mystery itself isn't off-the-charts ingenious, and this is one of those books that moves rapidly from plot point to plot point (a bit like a modern soap, perhaps) with pretty basic dialogue as connective hookups. But Death in Daytime is still good fun, especially for fans of Davidson or the soaps in general.
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