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100 1  Roker, Al,|d1954- 
245 14 The talk show murders :|ba Billy Blessing novel /|cAl 
       Roker and Dick Lochte. 
263    1112 
264  1 New York :|bDelacorte Press,|c[2011] 
264  4 |c©2011 
300    290 pages;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show 
       Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight 
       Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing 
       mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy 
       Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as 
       secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a 
       comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New
       York, before he was tapped to co-host the morning show 
       Wake Up, America! and travel with it for a week in the 
       Windy City--before he even assumed the name Billy Blessing
       --he lived a totally different life under a very different
       identity: as wily con man Billy Blanchard. Caught trying 
       to run a scam on a shady Detroit businessman, Billy did 
       time for his crimes, reinvented himself, and has 
       successfully kept that part of his past covered up ever 
       since. But when he and Eddie Patton, a nosy ex-cop with a 
       long memory, are guests on a popular Chicago TV talk show,
       the off-camera chat turns to blackmail. And Billy may have
       no choice but to pay up or see the embarrassing truth from
       being blogcast to the world on Patton's true crime 
       website. This being Chicago, secrets have a way of getting
       out--and getting people killed. When Patton winds up dead 
       in his apartment only hours after trying to shake Billy 
       down, it's just the first in a string of killings that has
       America's most beloved TV host scrambling for clues, 
       unsure who his friends are, and desperate to clear his 
       name before he becomes the media's latest poster child for
       celebrity scandal. Throw in a budding romance with a 
       visiting movie star and Billy Blessing may have finally 
       gotten himself into one sticky situation even he can't 
       talk his way out of. Fast-paced, funny, and bubbling over 
       with inside scoop on the business they call show, The Talk
       Show Murders is Al Roker mystery fiction at its delicious,
       dishy best"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "Billy Blessing wasn't always a celebrity chef. He wasn't 
       always a TV host. He wasn't always such a nice guy. He 
       wasn't even always Billy Blessing. He's reminded of this 
       when an ex-cop named Pine shows up at his hotel and 
       reminds him of Billy Blanchard, a small-time con who 
       nearly swindled Motown from Berry Gordy before doing a 
       year in prison. His associates, though, did a lot more 
       time, and a few of them have ended up murdered. Pine will 
       keep this quiet...for a fee... Billy's in a tight spot 
       that gets even tighter when Pine turns up dead. The cops 
       don't suspect Billy, but that doesn't mean his past can't 
       still come back to haunt him--or even get him killed as 
       well. With blackmail abound, bodies adding up, a budding 
       romance, and a television audience of millions, Billy is 
       definitely in the glare of the brightest spotlight. 
       Keeping his name clear is one challenge, keeping his head 
       attached to his body is another, and Billy will have to 
       rely on the very past he's trying to put behind him if 
       he's going to survive, and move forward one and for all"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Blessing, Billy (Fictitious character)|vFiction. 
650  0 Television personalities|vFiction. 
650  0 Celebrity chefs|vFiction. 
650  0 Ex-convicts|vFiction. 
650  0 Extortion|vFiction. 
650  0 Murder|vFiction. 
700 1  Lochte, Dick. 
994    92|bCKE