The story finds private eye Monaghan more or less babysitting a headstrong young starlet named Selene Waites, who has a major role in Mann of Steel, “the pilot for a TV miniseries being shot in Baltimore.” As Cunningham explains:
Everybody wants this shoot to be squeaky-clean. But Selene is making that hard, with her after-hours antics at the local bars. Hence, the call to Tess for help.You can read all of the review here.
Keeping Selene out of trouble is no easy task. Tess fails her first-night assignment, getting drugged and dumped by Selene and one of her boyfriends, “the actor of the moment.” But, as her previous outings have demonstrated, Tess isn’t easily outdone. She gets the upper hand when she hires her gal pal, Whitney Talbot, to help corral Selene and then keep the headstrong young actress under their collective thumbs. But while gumshoe Tess reins in Selene, she can’t exercise similar control over other events threatening the film’s production--a potential union shutdown, a suicide, a series of fires and smoke bombings, behind-the-scenes backstabbing and bad-mouthing, and a nasty feud between Selene and her co-star, a middle-aged actor who’s sliding down the ratings charts as quickly as she skyrockets up them. Adding to all these other troubles are an apparent stalker, bent on revenge, and a couple of killings that our heroine has to solve before she can dead-file the case and re-shelve the broken Emmy statuette that ultimately helps her find the murderer.
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