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Malicious Intent: A Hollywood Fable
Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn't recognize the dead man’s body. The local reverend has refused to permit burial. Reilly’s death is ruled a suicide. And no one has bothered to investigate.What the hell is going on here? That’s what Shep Harrington, a 32-year-old divorced and disbarred lawyer, wants to know, and can't quite answer. The deeper he probes, the more he’s drawn into reconstructing the final minutes of Reilly’s life, the more he’s compelled to confront his own past, and to ultimately learn the startling truth about his mother, Reilly, and himself.Shep comes easily to his new role of amateur sleuth. Because of his own recent experience, he’s deeply distrustful of authority, having just spent three years in prison for a white collar crime he didn't commit. Yet, in digging out the particulars of Reilly’s demise, he is neither bitter nor uncaring, and the book manages adroitly to be an engaging whodunnit set in a small town.
400 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1999
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About the author
Mike Walker
8 books4 followersDuring the O.J. Simpson “Trial of the Century,” Walker wrote the headline-making New York Times #1 Best Seller, "Nicole Brown Simpson: Private Diary of a Life Interrupted," with Faye Resnick. Just months later, his book "Private Diary of an OJ Juror," with Michael Knox, rocketed to #5 on the NYT list.
That created a world record: He’s the only reporter known to have written two best-selling books on the same major story. He’s written several non-fiction books, and the novel, “Malicious Intent.”
Walker delighted millions during a record-breaking 16-year stint as a regular with shock jock Howard Stern, who calls Walker "the Hemingway of gossip." Stern featured him every Friday on his top-rated show, conducting the famed "Mike Walker Game."
Dubbed "The King of Gossip" by Publisher’s Weekly, Walker’s lectured at such distinguished journalism schools as the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. And he scored the prestigious invitation to become a Fellow of Ireland’s legendary Trinity College, Dublin.
"I'm an historian," Walker explains, "and I’d love to teach a course in what drives mankind’s predilection for gossip. How’s ‘Professor of Whisperology’ sound?”
That created a world record: He’s the only reporter known to have written two best-selling books on the same major story. He’s written several non-fiction books, and the novel, “Malicious Intent.”
Walker delighted millions during a record-breaking 16-year stint as a regular with shock jock Howard Stern, who calls Walker "the Hemingway of gossip." Stern featured him every Friday on his top-rated show, conducting the famed "Mike Walker Game."
Dubbed "The King of Gossip" by Publisher’s Weekly, Walker’s lectured at such distinguished journalism schools as the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. And he scored the prestigious invitation to become a Fellow of Ireland’s legendary Trinity College, Dublin.
"I'm an historian," Walker explains, "and I’d love to teach a course in what drives mankind’s predilection for gossip. How’s ‘Professor of Whisperology’ sound?”
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September 7, 2011
Do you ever read a scandal magazine while waiting in the forever grocery line? Well, this book is even worse. It is a omplete novel based on the same hype, sleaze and mad characters. Add to it a zany ( as in bad zany, not funny ha-ha zany) plot line that includes an almost superhuman character from another planet, a bit of a love story and lots of cursing in bold letters.
sigh,.I hate to admit that I read it. My excuse - long Labor Day weekend, still recovering from recent surgery, whine, whine, whine.
Additionally - the book was published in 1999. It has not aged well.
sigh,.I hate to admit that I read it. My excuse - long Labor Day weekend, still recovering from recent surgery, whine, whine, whine.
Additionally - the book was published in 1999. It has not aged well.
Displaying 1 of 1 review