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Hallie Ephron

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Los Angeles, The United States

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@hallieephron

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Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

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Nancy Drew, Alfred Hitchcock, P. D. James, Patricia Highsmith, Ngaio M ...more

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November 2008

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Hallie Ephron (http://hallieephron.com) is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense novels. Her last five have all been Mary Higgins Clark Award finalists.

Her (August 2019) Careful What You Wish For tells the story of a professional organizer married to man who can't pass a yard sale without stopping. In this respect, Hallie is writing from personal experience. Her husband is a champion yard sailor who's packed their basement, garage, and attic with his finds.

A STARRED review in Publisher's Weekly proclaimed it an "outstanding standalone." Reviewing it for TIME Magazine, Jamie Lee Curtis called it "thrilling and suspenseful." From Kirkus: "Ephron's tidy approach to stowing clues, arousing suspicions, keeping the chaos of the climax ...more

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Hallie Ephron The idea that spakred NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT -- Hallie Epron
I was ten years old, growing up in Beverly Hills the daughter of Hollywood screenwriters…moreThe idea that spakred NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT -- Hallie Epron
I was ten years old, growing up in Beverly Hills the daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, when the news broke that Lana Turner's fourteen-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane confessed to murdering her mother's gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. Like the rest of the world, I was riveted by the story of the murder, by the hearing that followed, and pored over the pictures and articles that ran in the newspapers.

The house where it happened was a few blocks away from where we lived. I'd bike over and just stand on the sidewalk out front, staring up at the bedroom window where I thought the murder had occurred. I tried to imagine what it would be like to be that girl at the center of the scandal, the focus of paparazzi and the subject of all the gossip and speculation. I tried to imagine the kind of courage it must have taken for Cheryl -- I thought of her as someone I might have been friends with -- to do what she did and then to face the consequences.

In Night Night, Sleep Tight, I create an fictional set of characters in a situation that echoes that 1958 murder. I create glamorous Hollywood leading lady Elenor "Bunny" Nichol, her Argentine boyfriend Antonio "Tito" Acevedo, her daughter Joelen Nichol. Deirdre Unger, Joelen's best friend who was sleeping over at the house the night of the murder, is based on me.

Much of the novel and the character of Deirdre spring from my own experience growing up in Beverly Hills in the shadow of so much money and celebrity. And part of the novel is a murder mystery, one that is entirely fictional but inspired by an infamous scandal. Both of these threads weave together in a tale of love and betrayal, of celebrity and its consequences, set in the glamorous world of Beverly Hills.(less)

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Hallie Ephron Unsub - Lisa Gardiner
The Girl Before - JP Delaney
Duplicity - Ingrid Thoft
The Nowhere Man - Greg Hurwitz
Under the Knife - Kelly Parsons
He Said/She Said…moreUnsub - Lisa Gardiner
The Girl Before - JP Delaney
Duplicity - Ingrid Thoft
The Nowhere Man - Greg Hurwitz
Under the Knife - Kelly Parsons
He Said/She Said - Erin Kelly
Never Let You Go - Chevy Stevens
The Evening Spider - Emily Arsenault
The Whole Art of Detection - Lyndsey Faye
Conviction - Julia Dahl
Burntown - Jennifer McMahon
The Lies We Tell - Theresa Schwegel(less)

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Average rating: 3.49 · 17,595 ratings · 2,688 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	There Was an Old Woman 3.60 avg rating — 4,240 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Careful What You Wish For 3.36 avg rating — 3,778 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Tell a Lie 3.40 avg rating — 2,919 ratings — published 2009 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You'll Never Know, Dear 3.43 avg rating — 2,611 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Night, Sleep Tight 3.37 avg rating — 1,367 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come and Find Me 3.16 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1001 Books for Every Mood 3.71 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'em Dead with Style by Hallie Ephron (Goodreads Author), S.J. Rozan (Goodreads Author) (Foreward) 4.16 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel Revised and Expanded Edition: The Complete Guide to Mystery, Suspense, and Crime by Hallie Ephron (Goodreads Author), Hallie Ephron (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics 3.75 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It had been a while since Mina had been properly hugged. Not since her sister. Mina sat at the kitchen table as memories flooded back.”
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“Acetaminophen toxicity is the second-most-common cause of acute liver failure requiring transplantation.”
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“Acetaminophen. Same thing. It’s in a lot of over-the-counter drugs. People take a Tylenol and a Nyquil and a Coricidin, not realizing they all have acetaminophen. More than two grams a day can be lethal for someone with a compromised liver. That’s just three Extra Strength Tylenol. You can see how easy it is to overdose.”
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“Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all my ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
― W.B. Yeats

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message 3: by Zoë

Aug 04, 2013 12:50PM

Hi Hallie. Thanks so much for Friending me here. How lovely to catch up with you. How's the writing going?

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message 2: by Hallie

Dec 05, 2011 05:37AM

Eight crime fiction authors (Deborah Crombie, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Rhys Bowen, Lucy Burdette, Rosemary Harris...) talk about birth order and how it scarred us -- or didn't -- today on Jungle Red. Also a quiz and book giveaway (AIRTIME by Hank Phillippi Ryan and COME AND FIND ME by yours truly.) http://www.jungleredwriters.com/2011/...

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message 1: by Beth

Nov 25, 2008 09:47AM

Hi Hallie,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery/suspense author!
- Beth

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