The Last Role of Luella Vining: A Novel

June 1956. The world is overjoyed when reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film—a movie she wrote and starred in—after nearly a decade out of the public eye following a broken engagement and mounting scandal. The only problem is, Luella’s dead. Her death was the result of an allergic reaction to a bee sting, and she was discovered by a neighbor only a month before the film’s release. The stud...