"The Midnight Show Murders"
           By Al Roker and Dick Lochte
                                     A Billy Blessing Novel


2011 Book Review #20

When celebrity chef Billy Blessing goes to L.A. to guest on a popular late-night show, hilarity and murder ensue.

 Publishers Weekly Review

Billy's network bosses have tapped him to be the first weekly guest announcer of a new show, O'Day at Night, hosted by Irish comedian Des O'Day. When a bomb explosion blows an important cast member to bits on the set of O'Day at Night, Billy once again turns sleuth. 

The case awakens unpleasant memories of the beginning of Billy's career as a cook in L.A. when he unsuccessfully tried to undermine the alibi of Roger Charbonnet, an arrogant but well-connected young chef suspected of killing Tiffany Arden, a failed starlet turned restaurant bookkeeper. 

A cop who remembers the Arden murder thinks Roger may have been responsible for the bombing. Wry humor lifts this above most celebrity-written fiction.

My Thoughts:    It is the first of Al Roker's books I have read and I enjoyed it.  It's a fun mystery!