Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (Midnight Louie #17)

What's a Girl to do when she's forced to be, well, a girl?

That's what's hot shot freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr has to do when as a favor to top cop Carmen Molina she goes undercover at Teen Queen , the newest pop star-search reality TV show, all in the hopes of protecting Molina's 13-year old daughter.

It's no picnic trying to be a teenager again, even after a punk makeover. To make matters worse, Temple's in danger of being uncovered by the show's celebrity judges, including her romance novelist aunt and her arch-enemy, Crawford Buchanan. And just to make life more interesting there are her fellow contestants, unnatural blondes aplenty who are all too willing to sabotage and backstab their way to the top.

Unfortunately, someone has a real knife out for Las Vegas's young women, and it's up to Temple and her underfoot undercover partner, Midnight Louie, to ferret out the killer.