The Torch Singer, Book One: An Overnight Sensation

"Robert Westbrook's novel strips the gilt off the Hollywood Golden Age to reveal the seamier underside. 'The Torch Singer' begins with an ending, a scene of murder and mayhem on St. Valentine's Night in 1956 Beverly Hills and unravels the many and various threads of the lives and careers that took them there."
Time Out

"The Torch Singer" is a sweeping historical saga that takes the reader from the horrors of Nazi-occupied Poland to the glittery excesses of Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s: t...