After cancelling her wedding, Cece Caruso decides to go on
her honeymoon alone. Rather than rejuvenating her, Cece
returns home feeling more unsettled about the path her life
has taken. Adding to her stress is the looming deadline for
her biography of the master of suspense, director Alfred
Hitchcock. Seeking inspiration, Cece decides a screening of
the classic Vertigo is what she needs to get her
creative juices flowing.
The morning after the screening, Cece discovers a
stranger's cell phone in her purse. When she travels to a
deserted canyon to return it to its owner, she's witness to
a murder. Before Cece can make her escape, the stranger's
cell phone rings; it is the killer warning Cece to keep
quiet, or else. What ensues is a game of cat-and-mouse with
Cece trying to stay one step ahead of the killer, who is
determined to frame Cece for the crime!
Susan Kandel's DIAL H FOR HITCHCOCK is a brilliantly
crafted page-turner. As a longtime fan of all things
Hitchcock, I was absolutely delighted with this book. The
storyline was fun and unique and worthy of Hitch himself.
Cece is a thoroughly modern heroine, smart and sassy and
independent. I thoroughly enjoyed the bits of trivia
throughout the story. The twists and turns of the plot and
brilliant resolution of the mystery will keep readers
guessing to the end. Cece Caruso's world is a world I look
forward to visiting again soon!
Cece Caruso—mystery biographer extraordinaire, vintage
clothing enthusiast, and part-time sleuth—is in freefall.
First, she calls off her wedding, for reasons even she can't
explain. Second, her newest biography (of Alfred Hitchcock)
is way past deadline. So Cece puts on a houndstooth suit
with peplum and heads out to see Vertigo, only to come home
with a cell phone belonging to a stranger named Anita Colby.
Nothing if not a good citizen, Cece tries to return the cell
phone—only to hear someone push Anita off a cliff. Now a
woman is dead, and Cece is under suspicion (tip: don't leave
rambling, incoherent messages on someone's answering machine
just before she gets murdered). To clear her name and put
the real murderer in jail, Cece's going on the lam, where
she'll encounter mysterious strangers, unhelpful strippers,
a bottle of blond hair dye, and twists and turns so eerie
it's as if Hitch himself were writing the script.
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