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    Dream House
    Dream House
    Dream House
    Audiobook10 hours

    Dream House

    Written by Rochelle Krich

    Narrated by Deanna Hurst

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    DREAM HOUSE
    A Novel of Suspense

    Rochelle Krich
    National bestselling author of Blues in the Night

    Friday, October 31. 9:37 P.M., 100 block of South Martel. A vandal threw a pumpkin through the front window of a house and several eggs at the front door.

    The police report read like just another Halloween prank-a nasty, petty act. But the attack is one in a recent spate of increasingly violent vandalisms targeting residents who have paid millions of dollars for their dream homes in the ritziest enclaves of Los Angeles.

    Residents are already seething, hotly divided about the growing number of Historical Architectural Restoration and Preservation (HARP) boards that prevent homeowners from remodeling their expensive real estate, forcing them to preserve the traditional integrity of neighborhoods where Hollywood legends once lived. So impassioned are pro-and anti-HARP forces that Crime Sheet columnist Molly Blume suspects that members from both side of the debate may perpetrating the vandalism that claims new victims almost daily.

    But the arson that destroys an empty house on Fuller Street doesn't fit the pattern. This beautiful property belongs to Margaret Reston and her husband, Hank; and the sick old man who dies when it burns is Margaret's father. Margaret herself has disappeared. She was last seen working in her garden five months ago-and although traces of her blood were found in her car, the police have no idea what has happened to the missing woman.

    This intrigue all makes good copy for hard-hitting newshound Molly. Almost in love again with the high-school sweetheart who dumped her and is now a rabbi, Molly can't stop thinking about Margaret and Hank Reston and the old man whose life was tragically, though accidentally, cut short. But was it an accident? What has happened to Margaret Reston? Where does malice end and evil begin?

    In her second Molly Blume chiller, award-winning novelist Rochelle Krich takes us right inside L.A.'s most exclusive neighborhoods and into the elegant old houses whose wrought-iron fences and barred windows offer scant protection from violence. Even in a dream house, life can turn nightmarish in a heartbeat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543611250
    Dream House
    Author

    Rochelle Krich

    Rochelle Krich is the author of many acclaimed novels of suspense, including Blues in the Night (which introduced Molly Blume), Dream House, Shadows of Sin, Dead Air, Blood Money, and Fertile Ground. An Anthony Award winner for her debut novel, Where’s Mommy Now? (which was adapted as the TV movie Perfect Alibi), Krich lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their children.

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    • 4/5
      This well written mystery takes true crime writer Molly into the world of planning and zoning boards and the preservation of older homes. A missing woman, her cranky archetect father and members of the building trade all are suspects when the father is killed. Amongest all this Molly finds time for famiy and a budding romance.