The Case of the Cursed Cast

Nostalgia can be a killer, and closing the case falls to Rachel West and her Hollywood neighbors in the next show business mystery from beloved author Emma Mills.

Tabloid journalist turned amateur investigator Rachel West isn’t entirely sure what she wants to do with her life. Even with her recent windfall, Rachel is still living in her less than glamorous one-bedroom apartment at the Palm Vista, still largely subsisting on snacks from the gas station, and still entirely uncertain about what she wants in her career and in love.

It’s easier to solve other people’s mysteries than her own problems, so Rachel agrees to accompany her friend Casper Finch to the reunion of his cult-classic childhood sketch comedy show The California Kids Crew. Online rumors of a “curse” plague the group as the death of one of the show’s young stars years ago receives a new spotlight, and not all of the cast members are eager to revisit their shared history.

But when the reunion turns deadly, it’s up to Rachel, Casper, and their Palm Vista neighbors to uncover a killer who wants nothing more than to keep the past buried…at any cost.