Deadly Masquerade: A True Story of Sexual Secrets, Illicit Passion, and Murder

by Donita Woodruff

Book Overview

Donita Woodruff was a young, single mother when she moved her family from small-town Oklahoma to Los Angeles. There she met film producer David Allen, and they were soon swept up in a love affair fit for the big screen. For Donita, her new life seemed too good to be true until she met David's ex-girlfriend, Valerie. Something wasn't quite right about Valerie. Donita sensed the tall, striking woman was hiding a dark secret. Donita began sleuthing,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312942508
• ISBN13: 9780312942502
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Classics
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Juicy and Amazing Story

Donita's story is engaging and shocking at the same time. This book is a must read for anyone who loves gossip.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

I found some of the accounts of the author assisting the police a little hard to believe but all in all I enjoyed the book. Fact is stranger than fiction. If you like true crime stories, you will like this book.

A shocking true Hollywood story.

From the flash of gunfire to the flash of cameras on Oscar night "Deadly Masquerade" tells a true story so surreal you would think it was a made for Hollywood movie. A young, single mother of two lives in the day-to-day confinement of a small town in rural Oklahoma. Hungering for a second chance and the bustle of the big city, she decides to move her family back home to Los Angeles. Still hurting from previous romantic relationships, she is hesitant to start anything new; anything until she meets an Academy Award nominee who is successful, handsome and charming. The two are quickly swept up in a whirlwind romance. Life seems too good to be true but even wedding bells can't hide the secrets her new husband has. Suddenly, she and her children are caught in a Deadly Masquerade, a world of vicious lies and double lives, where nothing is as it appears. Mysterious phone calls, a questionable ex-lover, an unsolved murder, all begin to unravel in her true life account, Deadly Masquerade. When the perfect man reveals a sordid, double life, she is forced into a series of stunning revelations. Now, she only has one choice-to take matters into her own hands. Risking it all, she investigates the evidence of a twenty year old homicide only to discover a dangerous game of cover-up that leads right to her front door. Nothing is as it seems, as she is thrown into a world of hidden facts and changed identities. Trusting no one in this rogue's game, she must hide what she knows to bring a killer to justice and protect her children. Deadly Masquerade is a suspenseful page-turner full of skeleton-in-the-closet secrets and deadly liaisons, with a twist so bizarre and shocking, it could only be true!