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By KEVIN WALKER Media General News Service

The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 27, 2008

never seem to get old. At any rate, there are two new novels from some famous names.

In "One of These Malibu Nights" (St. Martin's Press, $24.95), author Elizabeth Adler (who has 21 novels, including "Meet Me in Venice" and "Sailing to Capri") offers a tale of murder and movie stars featuring a ruggedly handsome private investigator (naturally) named Mac. Mac is drawn into a case involving billionaires and movie stars. And in "Last Kiss," by Luanne Rice (Bantam, $25), the small community of Hubbard's Point, Conn., deals with the mysterious murder of one of its residents, a college student. Meanwhile, as the boy's girlfriend is searching for the killer (or killers), a man from the boy's mom's past returns. Complications, romantic and otherwise, are sure to ensue.

And if your taste runs to horror, there's a good one there, too. British writer Ramsey Campbell, who the Washington Post Book World called "one of the premiere horror writers of the English-speaking world," is back with "The Grin of the Dark" (Tor, $25.95). The story follows Simon Lester, a film critic who becomes a gas station attendant when his magazine goes out of business. But when he begins researching a book on a crazy silent film star, his life goes from boring to terrifying.

Kevin Walker can be reached at (813) 259-7975 or kwalker@tampatrib.com.

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