Third in the Jarrod Jarvis series; my comments on the second are here.
Jarrod's landed in a role in a play this time around, and is off to London to make his West End theatrical debut. The only one in the cast with whom Jarrod gets along is the 40-ish Oscar-winning diva Claire Richards, so when she is murdered on opening night, Jarrod is horrified to find himself suspected of the crime. The play has a large cast of egotistical actors, all of whom apparently had their own reasons to want Claire dead, and Jarrod sets out to save his own skin by solving the crime himself.
Jarrod's boyfriend, Charlie, is a policeman with the LAPD, and his expertise as a cop sometimes gets in the way of Jarrod's amateur crimesolving efforts in these books. Moving the story to London automatically helps, because Charlie has no jurisdiction there, but Copp takes even more steps to remove Charlie from the scene; his absence, in fact, is a key element that drives the plot in the second half of the book.
The biggest flaw this time around is that we don't meet the actual villain until far too late in the book, and we have no way of actually guessing who's pulling the strings until that character finally appears.
But like the earlier volumes in the series, this is breezy, disposable, fluffy fun, and it's a pleasant way to pass some time.
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