Starlit 2010, Gallery Books.  243 pages.  $24.99 Lisa Rinna   Soap opera actress and television personality Lisa Rinna has written a breezy novel that follows three young actresses looking for their big breaks in Hollywood.  It’s called Starlit, and it […]

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The Dream Factory 2002, Mira Books.  384 pages.  $22.95 Janet Leigh   Leigh’s final work, published just two years before her death, is another fictional exploration of Hollywood.  This time her protagonist is a woman, young Eve Handel (formerly Handelstein), […]

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House of Destiny 1995, Mira Books.  544 pages  (paperback only).  $5.99 Janet Leigh   Janet Leigh’s first novel covers familiar territory for her:  it concerns a resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, who finds his way to Hollywood and gradually rises […]

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