![]() ![]() With a tantalizing if undeveloped side plot involving Val's long-lost relatives, a sequel would be both logical and welcome. ![]() Siegal, a former journalist, blends glamour and gutter into a delicious cocktail, equal parts behind-the-scenes dish and crime novel. A Little Trouble with the Facts ( 2008) A novel by Nina Siegal Buy from Amazon Sorry, we've not found any editions of this book at Amazon Find this book at Valerie Vane was an up-and-coming lifestyle reporter at a prominent New York City daily. In the hunt for his killer, aided by her dark and handsome source, Cabeza, Val uncovers corruption that will put her name back on page one and her life in danger. There, the disgraced writer learns to be a real reporter, investigating the mysterious death of revered graffiti artist Malcolm Wallace. After a drug-fueled rage that gets her mug on all the trashy tabs, Val is relegated to the obits desk. She's quickly scooped up by the style section of the Paper (a thinly veiled New York Times), but becomes undone by cocaine nights and her social-climbing no-good boyfriend. Sassy, brassy journo Valerie Vane n e Sunburst Rhapsody Miller, born to a pair of hippies wants to be famous and does so the old-fashioned way: by tossing gossip bricks. ![]() Chick lit meets Raymond Chandler in this slick debut about a Gotham gossip girl's rise, fall and resurrection in New York circa 1999. ![]()
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