Lillian Frost & Edith Head Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Design for Dying | 2016 | Buy |
| Dangerous to Know | 2017 | Buy |
| Script for Scandal | 2020 | Buy |
| The Sharpest Needle | 2021 | Buy |
| Idle Gossip | 2022 | Buy |
Rosemarie and Vince Keenan write together as Renee Patrick, having found that 1930s Hollywood gave them a setting rich enough to support a long series. The pairing of fictional narrator Lillian Frost with the historical Edith Head lets them move through the studio system, the party circuit, and the criminal underworld of Los Angeles without being constrained to purely invented characters.
The series began in 2016 with Design for Dying and ran to five books through 2022. The Hollywood backdrop shifts with each novel as different studios, genres, and scandals of the era come into focus.
The Keenans do careful research, and the books are as much about what the film industry looked like from the inside during the classic era as they are about the murders themselves. Readers who enjoy Old Hollywood as a setting tend to find the series hard to put down once they start.