Hollywood Ending

Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Endingis a story that will make your heart skip a beat. Pink-haired Hilda and endearing punk Benji are two seventeen year olds with an obsessive hobby - they haunt the places where Hollywood celebrities have died. In rundown Echo Park they find the squalid apartment where a second-rate silent movie star stabbed himself to death. Its current tenant is Hank, an old man with a mysterious past. While Benji dives deeper into the cult of celebrity death, Hank and Hilda make an unlikely pair. Then Jake the screenwriter turns up. What's his story? Hollywood Endingis a thriller, a comedy about the weirdness of growing up, and a wry love-letter to Los Angeles. Kathy Charles has written a debut novel to die for.