Small town reporter Irene Glasson, working for the low-rate scandal sheet Hollywood Whispers, chases a tantalizing gossip story to Southern California, where she meets Oliver Ward, a once-renowned magician who now owns the Burning Cove Hotel. The town of Burning Cove appears to be a charming, glamourous paradise, but there are dark and dangerous undertones. When Irene discovers the body of a beautiful actress at the bottom of the hotel pool, she's intent on investigating the murder, no matter how much Oliver protests. Then more murders occur. What's a curious g girl reporter to do but investigate?

Irene is an intriguing woman with many secrets and Oliver, who has plenty of secrets of his own, vows to be the man who uncovers those secrets. He just has to keep Irene alive long enough to do so, since there are several entities, from the past and the present, working hard at silencing Irene forever. Both Irene and Oliver have had to reinvent new lives for themselves, but neither feels content with their new incarnations. The fear of being located haunts Irene every day. Could this murder investigation be the catalyst that reveals her location and true identity? Not if Oliver has anything to say about it and can prevent it. It's a shaky precipice on which they both stand.

THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is another delightful romantic mystery from expert storyteller Amanda Quick. Irene and Oliver's romance is secondary to the murder mystery, but Quick blends it all with her usual expertise. Though THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is a departure from the norm, Quick works her magic yet again and brings to life a cast of characters in a captivating locale and the glitzy era of 1930s Hollywood. I've found that one can never go wrong deciding to read a historical romance by the incomparable Amanda Quick, no matter where she sets the locale.