WILLIAM MORROW
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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New York Times bestselling author, Hallie Ephron combines the glamour of Old Hollywood with a classic mystery of suspense in her latest novel, Night Night, Sleep Tight
Praise for NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT: “Old Hollywood glamour, scandals, and lies infuse this captivating thriller set in 1985″₺ — Publishers Weekly *Starred* Review “Both a satire and a celebration of Hollywood, Hallie Ephron’s tale of murder, intrigue and double-‐crossing is a delicious romp that could only have been written by an insider. Taut, tart and absorbing.” — Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train “As the daughter of screenwriters, Ephron knows the old Hollywood scene and re-‐creates it vividly...A fast-‐moving tale, with building suspense and the price of fame at its center.”— Booklist “A page turner with juicy Hollywood insider details.” –Kirkus Reviews “An e
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ystery.” unsettling” (Seattle Times), and filled with “intensive, sustaining suspense” (Lansing State Journal). Ephron’s last — Library novel, There Was An Old Woman was Journal nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark Award and was praised by Sarah Weinman as “One of 2013’s Top 10 Crime Fiction Books.” In addition, Ephron has been recognized for “fast becoming one of contemporary fiction’s masters of suspense.” (Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post). Now, with NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT (William Morrow, on sale March 24, 2015, ISBN: 9780062117632, $26.99), Ephron delivers her most captivating mystery yet, tinged with Hollywood glamour and set in a town where fame and infamy are often interchangeable. Los Angeles 1985: Deirdre Unger makes the drive from San Diego to Beverly Hills to help her screenwriter father put his dilapidated house on the market. She is expecting to deal with his usual kvetching and dark moods, but she gets a lot more than she expected... In a cruel Sunset Boulevard-‐ian twist, Deirdre arrives home to find her father face down in his too-‐small swimming pool -‐-‐ dead. At first, Deirdre assumes her father’s death was a tragic accident. But the longer she stays in town the more Deirdre begins to suspect that this is merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making. The sudden re-‐surfacing of Deirdre’s childhood BFF Joelen Nichol -‐-‐ daughter of the famous and infamous Elenor “Bunny” Nichol -‐-‐ seems like more than a coincidence. Back in 1963, Joelen confessed to killing her movie star mother’s boyfriend. It just so happens that Deidre was at the Nichols’ house the night of the murder, which was also the night she suffered her own personal tragedy. Could all of these events be connected? As Deirdre struggles to uncover the truth about the past, she is forced to confront a truth that she has long not wanted to believe. Set in both the 1960’s and 1980’s with the bright lights of Hollywood shining in the background, NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT looks beyond the glitz and glamour to uncover well buried secrets of what goes on behind the scenes in Tinsel Town. ###
About the Author:
Hallie Ephron is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Tell a Lie, Come and Find Me, and There Was an Old Woman. She is the mystery reviewer for the Boston Globe. She grew up in Beverly Hills, the daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, and lives near Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, visit Hallie at her website at hallieephron.com. More Advance Praise for NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT:
“NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT is Hallie Ephron at her very best, a layered, page-‐turning mystery that recalls the glamour of Old Hollywood and a generation of Beverly Hills kids who grew up in its shadow.” — William Landay, New York Times-‐bestselling author of Defending Jacob “Hallie Ephron is a master at both building suspense and crafting characters that live and breathe, and this time she’s outdone herself. A spellbinding story steeped in Hollywood legend and lore, NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT is richly atmospheric, multi-‐layered and deeply resonant. Ephron expertly weaves the past and present together, and has them collide in wonderfully jarring and unexpected ways. It is her best work yet, and once I started, I couldn’t tear myself away.”— Jennifer McMahon, New York Times-‐bestselling author of The Winter People “Set in Hollywood in the 60s and 80s, Hallie Ephron’s Night Night, Sleep Tight shines with her intimate knowledge of time, place and character as well as glamour and suspense. Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop.”
-‐ BA Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forge NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT By Hallie Ephron William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers On Sale: March 24, 2015, Hardcover; Fiction ISBN: 9780062117632, Price: $26.99; E-‐Book ISBN: 9780062117656 Hallie Ephron’s Tour Schedule &
Appearances
for Night Night, Sleep Tight
Tuesday, March
24
BROOKLINE
BOOKSMITH
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
7pm
*Launch Event Wednesday, March 25
MILTON PUBLIC
LIBRARY
476 Canton Avenue
Milton, MA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing Tuesday, March 31
Thursday, April 2
MELROSE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
69 West Emerson Street
Melrose, MA
7:30pm
*Book Talk & Signing
BOOKENDS
559 Main Street
Winchester, MA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing Thursday, March 26
Saturday, March 28
WELLESLEY BOOKS
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing
NEWPORT PUBLIC
LIBRARY
March Mystery Month
300 Spring Street
Newport, RI
2pm
*Book Talk & Signing
Saturday, April 4
Monday, April 6
BROOKLINE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
361 Washington Street
Brookline, MA
2pm
*Joint Book Signing &
Discussion with
Roseanne Montillo
TUFTS LIBRARY
46 Broad Street
Weymouth, MA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, April 7
Wednesday, April 8
Thursday, April 9
Friday, April 10
BUTTONWOOD BOOKS
747 CJC Highway
Rte 3A
Cohasset, MA
7pm
*Joint Book Signing &
Discussion with Holly
Robinson
SWEETSER LECTURE
SERIES
@ Wakefield High School
60 Farm Street
Wakefield, MA
7:30pm
*Talk on being “Inspired by
Old Hollywood”
RJ JULIA BOOKSTORE
768 Boston Post Rd.
Madison, CT
7pm
*In Conversation with
Hartford Books Examiner,
John Valeri
BANK SQUARE BOOKS
53 West Main Street
Mystic, CT
12pm
*Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, April 14
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday, April 16
Saturday, April 18 &
Sunday, April 19
POISONED PEN
BOOKSTORE
4014 N Goldwater Blvd
#101
Scottsdale, AZ
4pm
*Writing Workshop on
“Plotting a Page Turner”
BEVERLY HILLS
PUBLIC LIBRARY
444 N. Rexford Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
2pm
*Book Talk & Signing
VROMAN’S
BOOKSTORE
BURBANK PUBLIC
LIBRARY/BUENA VISTA
BRANCH
300 N. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA
12pm
SANTA MONICA
PUBLIC LIBRARY/PICO
LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF
BOOKS
University of
Southern California -University Park Campus
Los Angeles, CA
*Mystery Panel & Signings
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing
BRANCH
2201 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA
7pm with Mysterious Galaxy and
Mystery Ink Tuesday, April 21
Wednesday, April 22
Friday, May 1 - May
3
Wednesday, June 10
CANTON PUBLIC
LIBRARY
786 Washington Street
Canton, MA
7pm
*Book Talk & Signing
BILLERICA PUBLIC
LIBRARY
15 Concord Road
Billerica, MA
7pm
*Panel with Sisters in Crime
authors Sheila Connolly and
Clea Simon.
“Stealing from the dead:
Ideas and where we get
them.”
MALICE DOMESTIC
CONFERENCE
Hyatt Hotel
1 Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD
FRIENDS OF THE
NEEDHAM FREE
PUBLIC LIBRARY
1139 Highland Avenue,
Needham Heights, MA
7pm
*Annual Meeting with
presentation
In addition to Hallie’s Tour Schedule, she will also be
participating in the following Writers Workshops:
Thursday, July 23
BOOK PASSAGE MYSTERY WRITERS CONFERENCE
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA
1pm
Friday, July 31-August 2
WRITERS DIGEST CONFERENCE EAST
The Roosevelt Hotel
45 East 45 Street
New York, NY
*Hallie will be teaching 3 writing workshops
th
Saturday, October 17
HEART OF DENVER ROMANCE WRITERS
MINI-CONFERENCE
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
8773 Yates Drive
Westminster, CO
Friday, October 23-25
SURREY INTERNATIONAL WRITERS CONFERENCE
The Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel
15269 104th Avenue
Surrey, British Columbia