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Murder on Sex Island
A Luella van Horn Mystery
By Jo Firestone
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A sexy reality show. A missing contestant. A one-of-a-kind detective. Bless Jo Firestones quiet, mad genius. . . . Hilarious and completely brilliant, [a] bloodstained love-letter to reality-dating television.Vulture When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers dont know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced exsocial worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye. The local press couldnt get enough of Luella . . . until she horribly bungled her last case and a murderer went free. Unable to resist the opportunity to be a part of her favorite trashy TV show, travel to a remote island, and embark on a journey for redemption, Marie-as-Luella takes the case. But the more she learns about Sex Islands dark underbelly, the harder it gets to make it out alive. She encounters shady producers, sleazy directors, contestants willing to do whatever it takes to win the $100,000 grand prizeand the dead body of the shows missing fan-favorite in her bathtub. Will she find the killer? Will she find herself? Will she find . . . love? Find out now, in Sex Islands most dramatic season yet.
A sexy reality show. A missing contestant. A one-of-a-kind detective.
Bless Jo Firestones quiet, mad genius. . . . Hilarious and completely brilliant, [a] bloodstained love-letter to reality-dating television.Vulture
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers dont know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced exsocial worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye. The local press couldnt get enough of Luella . . . until she horribly bungled her last case and a murderer went free.
Unable to resist the opportunity to be a part of her favorite trashy TV show, travel to a remote island, and embark on a journey for redemption, Marie-as-Luella takes the case. But the more she learns about Sex Islands dark underbelly, the harder it gets to make it out alive. She encounters shady producers, sleazy directors, contestants willing to do whatever it takes to win the $100,000 grand prizeand the dead body of the shows missing fan-favorite in her bathtub.
Will she find the killer? Will she find herself? Will she find . . . love?
Find out now, in Sex Islands most dramatic season yet.