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THE BRIGHT SILVER STAR
by David Handler
St Martin's Minotaur, November 2003
280 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0312307144


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Famed New York film critic Mitch Berger is beginning to fit into the life of quiet, snooty Dorset Connecticut, where he went to try to recover from the death of his wife. This summer, however, Hollywood's hottest couple, Esme Crockett, a Dorset native, and her husband Tito Molina, a handsome, gifted actor from the barrio, have rented a home in town and the village is overwhelmed with gawkers.

Berger walks on the beach every morning with three other men -- Dodge, a village aristocrat and Esme's father; Will, a baker, who owns a restaurant/bakeshop in the converted piano factory in town, and Jeff, who runs a bookshop in the same building.

Mitch is having lunch with his lover, resident trooper Master Sergeant Desiree Mitry, when Esme and Tito come in. Tito immediately goes after Berger, who panned his last film. Mitch believes that Molina is a truly gifted actor but is wasting himself by taking roles in poor movies. Later, when Tito is found dead at the base of a cliff, Berger is the immediate suspect.

Mitch Berger, the chubby Jewish film critic and Des Mitry, the tall, gorgeous, black State Trooper, seem to be an odd couple, but the way Handler deals with their relationship, it works. His other characters may seem just on the edge of triteness, but they never go over the edge. And Dorset could be any New England town on the Sound. Des and Mitch are an engaging couple. May they have many more adventures together.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2004

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