Brian Kavanagh - Bloody Ham

"The reader is quickly pulled into the palpable tension between producers, directors, actors, actresses and their spouses. The flip and sometimes tawdry jealousies between stars who want to become rich and those who can make or break them becomes drama paralleling the history of Ham House. Alarm begins to spread when one famous actress collapses and dies and later an actor is found stabbed to death. Belinda and Hazel are drawn into the mystery while Belinda meanwhile has to decide between her recent lover and an older lover from Australia.
Brian Kavanagh continues to be a master of a quick-paced but interesting plot that tenaciously holds the reader's interest to the very taut but satisfying end. Bloody Ham is definitely the best of the whole series he has written.
Well done, indeed, Brian Kavanagh!!! Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on November 11, 2007 http://www.crystalreviews.com/authors/k/kavanaghbloodyham.htm

When Hazel lends some of her antique silverware to be used as props in a Restoration drama being filmed in Surrey, she and her friend Belinda are thrilled to be allowed on set. From the outset, it is clear that there are tensions within the senior management and there are any number of affairs going on. Things come to a head during filming when the lead actress collapses and dies, having been poisoned. This is followed by another death. There are any number of suspects, including Belinda herself. Can Belinda and Hazel unravel the tangles and find the murderer? It was obvious to me as soon as I saw the title of this book that it was going to be something of a ...  Read the complete review