Love, Sex, and Murder [Hardcover]

Sue Cameron (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996

As a child, she had found her mother murdered in her bedroom, and now as an adult, Nikki Easterly begins investigating the crime using the Internet and becomes involved in an online relationship with a sadomasochistic man who knows something about her mother's murder.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cameron (Honey Dust) comes on like Jackie Collins on smart drugs in this glitzy slice of California sleaze. The murder of the title arrives first, when Nikki Easterly, six, finds her celebrated actress mother bound to the bedposts, dead. Only after Nikki grows up into a 25-year-old Hollywood lawyer does the sex?kinky or odd enough to include a man who barks while making love?kick in. Despite top billing, however, love is in short supply in the desperate world Cameron depicts. As she gets involved in a case that hinges on DNA evidence, Nikki turns up evidence that tears open the wound of her mother's murder. Now hunting both the real killer and the father she never knew, Nikki, who's terrified of intimacy, discovers the world of online sex. During her forays as the virtual vixen Rough Me Up, she comes under the spell of The Master, a sadomasochist who turns out to play a role in her twin quests. Cameron's storytelling is swift and sure, and her authoritative details of the ways and mores of the dream factories of both cyberspace and La La Land seem to carry the stamp of experience. Faye Resnick has blurbed this novel ("I liked her ending better than real life"); so have Victoria Principal ("exciting") and Kim Novak ("murder.... sensuality.... I love them both"). Will readers who don't know that Cameron edits the Hollywood gossip sheet Beverly Hills 213 share the excitement? Yes, if they're looking for a power walk on the wild side.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Like an inept skier, Cameron (Honey Dust, LJ 6/1/93) starts out well at the top of the run but from there on careens downhill, grabbing at storylines and crashing into trees. She starts with Nikki Easterly, illegitimate daughter of a beautiful movie star. Nikki is sent to be raised by her mother's sister in Carmel. Next, zip to Nikki all grown up. She has become a lawyer and moved to La La land and landed a cushy job with her mother's former fiance, Mark. Being an idealistic sort, Nikki takes a pro bono case involving a young man wrongly accused of murder. His supposed victim was a young hooker, who was tied to Atlas studios, which is tied to the sinister millionaire Phillipe Gaseon, who is tied to Ana, who sleeps with Mark. When relaxing from the pressures of her law practice, Nikki indulges in the latest nutty fad: Cybersex, or talking dirty to strangers on the internet. Soon, the storyline veers into the trees on a strange new trail. A major disappointment; save your money.?Dawn L. Anderson, North Richland Hills P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books; First Edition edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446518522
• ISBN-13: 978-0446518529
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,477,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, Pulse rising, and Sex all in one. A Non-stop read, June 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Sex and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is like none that I have read before it combines Love, Sex, Muder, and the hurt the character faces along her way. If you love books that in a way deal with the "World Wide Web" you will love this even though there is not alot of mention of it, it still leaves you thinking.... I loved this book one of the best I have read in a long time! And just the perfect plot, story, and twists and turns, keeps you guessing! Keeps you wishing that Sue Cameron would write more books! She is one of the greatest writers! No Doubt to that! And I suggest reading "Honey Dust" by Sue Cameron it is a perfect book also!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor little rich girl finds happiness in poor plot, January 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Sex and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the tale of a clueless lady lawyer who stumbles into a solution for her mothers murder. Hollywood name dropping can't substitute for the shallow characterizations of the forgettable main characters. A tedious plot line leads to a string of implausable circumstances in the final chapter. The author's research shows through in some nice scenic descriptions, but there's not nearly enough of travelogue to make up for the crumby plot.