The Writing Of Privilege

Privilege is commercial fiction with strong elements of crime fiction and murder mystery to go along with the underling pop culture genre, pushing the ripped-from-the-headlines reality to the point of no return.

Constructed as a powerful narrative using the image-based energy of the modern cinema, it’s a one-month slice into the ever-evolving, pop culture world of privilege, where some stars go to jail, some die from their excesses, or merely fade away.

Launched into superstardom when a sleazy sex video she had starred in accidentally leaked to the public, billionaire heiress Allie Dolanne is at the top of the paparazzi A-list.

Along with her Best Friends Forever celebutantes, singer-actress-starlet Lara Tait, once-cute kid star Sheli Lange, and fashion model-actress-singer Kela Ryan, Allie and her singer-starlet sister Tary, feed the celebrity gossip tabloids and Internet sites daily with one shocking shenanigan after the other.

Captured on film by a prominent paparazzo, an unexpected sexual indiscretion between Allie and Lara forever changes their lives. This leads renowned Beverly Hills private investigator, Grant Westmore, to the breakthrough discovery of a blackmail plot by the paparazzo and his adult film goddess wife, and that there’s a serial killer on the loose in Hollywood.

Principled and sophisticated, tenacious and brilliant, Grant Westmore mixes the intuitive spirit of the beloved sleuths of classic detective tales with the irony, wit and creativity of a postmodern private eye in Tinseltown.

As the clues unfold, and relying on his gut and following intuition rather than stiff department procedures, he demonstrates the subtle artfulness of a great investigator: bits of information and events that seem of no particular importance are eventually pieced together to create a clear image of deception.

While around him loves are betrayed, lives are lost, the innocent are endangered and the guilty spin webs of deceit, Westmore gathers a team unflinching in their loyalty.

With acumen, wit and a bit of luck, Westmore, Marlene Wilson, and Carmela Gambini fight their way through fiendish schemes, fitting the many jagged fragments of evidence into a single, appalling truth: the world’s most photographed and Googled Hollywood celebrity, Allie Dolanne, is the serial killer.