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 Carusoβmystery biographer extraordinaire, vintage
clothing enthusiast, and part-time sleuthβis 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
phoneβonly 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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