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Author Casey Sherman

as he discusses his latest book

A  Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

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ABOUT THE BOOK: From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all―a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of.

But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventually, the physical and emotional abuse became too much to bear, and Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny―with disastrous consequences.

The details of what happened that fateful night remain foggy, but it ended in a series of frantic phone calls and Stompanato dead on Lana's bedroom floor, with Cheryl claiming to have plunged a knife into his abdomen in an attempt to protect her mother. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie.

New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal the dark underbelly of celebrity and tells the story of Lana Turner and her daughter, who finally stood up to the abuse that plagued their family for years. A Murder in Hollywood transports us back to the golden age of film and illuminates one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime tales.

“In his stunning new book A Murder in Hollywood, Casey Sherman takes us behind the glitz and glamour of 1950s Technicolor to a front row seat at a real-life film noir, the story of Lana Turner and her terrifying love affair with LA gangster Johnny Stompanato. It's a violent and harrowing tale of female empowerment, a page turner more gripping than any film in which she ever starred!” - Terence Winter, Executive Producer The Sopranos; Boardwalk Empire; Tulsa King.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Casey Sherman is a renowned investigative journalist and New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Boston Globe bestselling author of 16 books including The Finest Hours (now a major Walt Disney Studio motion picture starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck), and Patriots Day (now an acclaimed motion picture from CBS Films starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon).

Sherman’s 2023 true crime bestseller Helltown is now in development as a limited television series for Amazon Studio. Sherman will serve as Executive Producer on the project, which is slated to star Oscar Isaac (Dune), with Academy Award winning director Edward Berger (All is Quiet on the Western Front), and produced by Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr. and Susan Downey - HBO’s Perry Mason).

Sherman’s other books include Search for the Strangler, James Patterson’s The Last Days of John Lennon, which spent more than 23 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption, and Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of The Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss (now a stage play starring Neal McDonough).

Sherman has appeared on more than 100 television and radio programs and is a contributing writer for TIME Magazine, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Boston Magazine and the Boston Herald. Sherman is also the host of the popular true-crime podcast Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers.