Susan M. Hooper
It was never any secret that Stars of Tomorrow, a TV talent show, was linked to Legend Studios; contest winners could not be awarded singles’ deals there otherwise.
When Bob Knox, a producer of some repute, left Legend over a year ago, he was not the first man out the door. Barnaby Moss, the talented engineer he was often teamed with on the Stars’ projects, may have been the last man in, but he was the first man out.
Suffering through the recording process with more bad acts than the infamous stick could be shaken at, the team of Knox and Moss had both taken pride in the fact that they never failed to hit the charts. Teamed with Bernie Becker, the under-whelming engineer who inherited the Stars’ projects when Moss left, Bob knew he could never again make that claim; no one was surprised when he took a better offer from a rival studio.
With Legend now losing money on a deal that had once been sweet, a plan is hatched to lure Barnaby Moss back, lest tomorrow’s stars take it down today’s toilet. More tired of being a ‘house-daddy’ than he wants to admit, Moss takes on the endeavor described to him as a summer project, only to find that it is a summer shooting, and he is an eyewitness…maybe he is not so tired of being a ‘house-daddy’ after all.
Leaving one crime behind, Moss takes his partner and young son to the Connecticut shore, foolishly thinking that the rest of the summer will be peaceful, but he is wrong…time and again.
In 1996, Connecticut native Susan M. Hooper left her position as legal secretary/legal assistant--a post she held for more than two decades--for the fresh air of the summer/autumn craft circuit. The dolls, bears and holiday items that quickly established her as a regular face on the circuit, gave way to books in 2004. Penning Belle Harbor Skeletons, which should have been a ‘series of one’ she found an audience that clamored for more.
With the current title, Hooper’s socially-aware mystery series numbers eight, and the author plans to keep it going.
