A MAP TO PARADISE by Susan Meissner - Spotlight
A MAP TO PARADISE can be described as a film noir in the form of a novel. It’s crime-laced, historical suspense told from the perspective of three women who each have everything to lose. Only together can they save themselves—and each other.
1956 - Malibu - a veritable paradise in Southern California. The sun is shining. The roses are in bloom. But something is not quite right at the Blankenship house on Paradise Circle.
Three women—a blacklisted Hollywood actress, her widowed next-door neighbor, and her maid—suddenly find themselves thrust together one December morning when Elwood Blankenship, celebrated screenwriter, has inexplicably disappeared from his home. Elwood is agoraphobic—so where could a man who refuses to leave the house possibly have gone?
One question turns into many more as the three women begin peeling back the layers of Elwood’s—and each other’s—lives. And soon, the trio find that they must work together to cover up the harrowing truth. As a string of buried scandals and incriminating lies soon creep out into the light of day, a fire rages ever closer, and everything the women have worked for is threatened to burn to the ground.
She was born and raised in San Diego, California, but spent some of her adult life living in Minnesota as well as in England and Germany, before returning home to southern California in 2007. Susan attended Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
Prior to her writing career, she was a managing editor of a weekly newspaper in southwestern Minnesota. She enjoys teaching workshops on writing, spending time with her family, reading great books and traveling. Susan now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband Bob (a retired chaplain in the Air Force Reserves) and their yellow lab, Winston.
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