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Delusion

Name: Delusion
Author: Joanna Elm
ISBN: 9781466838703

by Joanna Elm

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Overview

When Emma Kane turns up dead in her Main Line mansion, no one is free from suspicion, least of all her husband of twenty-five years, New York media mogul Jack Kane. Too many people would love to see Jack Kane out of biusiness permanently, including a nemesis whose dealings with Kane rival the Murdoch-Turner conflict. Bestselling true-crime writer Kate McCusker arrives on the scene to help uncover Emma's murderer. As Kate finds herself the center of opposing attention between suspect Kane and Philadelphia cop Mike Travis, she is caught up in an all-consuming web of intrigue even she couldn't have imagined--and only a high-tech Peeping Tom is tapped into the truth.

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About the Author, Joanna Elm

An Emmy Award-winning newswriter, Joanna Elm was formerly the producer of A Current Affair and A Current Afair Extra. She began her career as a reporter for The London Evening News more than twenty years ago. She then traveled to the United States to work for The Star as a reporter, news editor, and finally managing editor of The Star Magazine. Joanna also wrote for WNYW's Ten O'Clock News in New York City. Joanna Elm lives with her husband, Joe, and son, Danny, on Long Island.

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Where's the gun? Merion County investigators wonder when Emma Kane, the bullying, promiscuous wife of even more obsessively philandering WorldMedia News president Jack Kane, is shot to death—together with a hunky law student who moonlights as a male stripper—at the Main Line estate she still maintains even though Jack's decamped for New York. Only one person knows where the gun is: geeky Channel 7 news tech Lewis Terrenzio, determined to avenge himself on Jack Kane by breaking into the homes of Jack's former lovers, a lineup of Jessica Savitch wannabe newsanchors (in an especially tasteful touch, Lewis turns out to have been hounding real-life anchor Savitch herself), and forcing them at knifepoint to strip for a get-Jack videotape Lewis is making. Elm (Scandal, not reviewed) shows Lewis's high- tech Peeping Tom act getting him wildly past his depth when the night he picks to spy on Emma Kane and Tony Salerno is the very night they get shot. Now he's got not only the murder weapon (flung at his departing car by the killer), but a shadowy video of the perp, which he's about as likely to take to the cops as he is to be anointed the next Jessica Savitch. So it's up to bestselling crime reporter Kate McCusker to follow the tangle of blonds, erotomaniac fixations, and eleventh-hour secrets in order to unveil the killer—if the killer doesn't wipe out Kate's fragile family first. Glossy telemovie fodder, with Kate's interpolated transmutations of the case to the formulas of true-crime romance indistinguishable from Elm's own rolling periods.