Sunset and Vine

The serendipitous rescue of a dowager driver from her wrecked Rolls Royce sets up a cascading series of events that lead from the spooky mists of 1930's Hollywood to the edgy mix of players in today's Los Angeles. Sunset and Vine, a fast paced thriller with a romantic frosting, tosses us square in the middle of family intrigue and celluloid legend. Billy Sunset and Amanda Vine invite you in.

Author: Louis Briel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/03/2010
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781450534369

About the Author
A Native Virginian, Louis Briel was schooled in the Classics. He earned degrees from Hampden-Sydney College as first-honor graduate and Harvard University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. An internationally acclaimed portrait painter, his art training includes a certificate from the American Academy in Rome and private study in Boston. The Smithsonian Institution in 1993 acquired Briel's painting of tennis great Arthur Ashe for the National Portrait Gallery. In 1995 the U. S. House of Representatives added his portrait of Congressman Thomas J. Bliley to its collection. Briel's haunting likeness of Princess Diana accompanied Elton John on his 1997-98 world tour and is now part of the singer's personal collection. It is featured in the book Diana in Art (Chaucer Press 2007). More recently, Briel has worked with Carol Burnett to create a posthumous portrait of her daughter Carrie Hamilton, which hangs in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse. Briel's artwork can be seen on his website www.louisbriel.com Sunset and Vine is Louis Briel's second novel. His first, Braided Shame, a mystery novel, was published in 2008 and is available on Amazon.com

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