Scared to death

Twentysomething ex-swimsuit model-turned television news anchor Lori Matrix wants to prove her producers wrong: She can do hard news.

The tall, blonde, blue-eyed journalist, hired to boost her station's ratings, gets her chance when legendary actor Rex Hampton turns up dead at the first gathering of six Hollywood movie legends during the screening of his favorite movie.

Hampton becomes the first in a series of macabre murders.

Three more movie giants from the group drop dead, under mysterious circumstances, at successive film screenings.

Something on the screen, something in those movies, made their hearts stop.

An unexplained phenomenon? A ghost? What? Believing all four deaths are related, Matrix proves it, as she unmasks the perpetrator behind the evil in this original Hollywood whodunit.REVIEWS"e;SCARED TO DEATH is a delightful Hollywood cozy mystery written from the inside.

Although Lenburg's characters are fictional, his extensive knowledge of the lifestyle of the rich and famous comes into play.

His characters are recognizable without being real, and the mystery itself is a plot that weaves in and out of the Hollywood mystique. -- Midwest Book Review"e;Fans of Old Hollywood know Jeff Lenburg as a first-class chronicler of long-ago Tinseltown and its larger-than-life denizens.

SCARED TO DEATH shows that he's just as adept in a fictional setting, evoking both a sense of wonder and a delicious sense of dread.

Anyone who loves classic movies will love this novel!"e; -John Wooley, author, AWASH IN BLOODABOUT THE AUTHORJEFF LENBURG is a prolific, award-winning author of 35 books, including two national bestsellers.

His works include 18 acclaimed celebrity autobiographies and biographies of Lorenzo Lamas, Dudley Moore, Dustin Hoffman, Veronica Lake, Steve Martin, Dudley Moore, the Three Stooges, and others, which have been nominated for several awards, including the American Library Association's (ALA) "e;Best Non-Fiction Award"e; and the Evangelical Christian Publisher Association's (ECPA) Gold Medallion Award for "e;Best Autobiography/Biography."e; Jeff has interviewed and written about Hollywood legends and cinematic lore since he was 15.

This is his first novel.