The Game is a Footnote by Vicki Delany

Author:Vicki Delany
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

Chapter Thirteen

Robyn and Sharon’s visit had planted additional questions in my mind, but the death of Dave Chase would have to wait, as I had something more important to do.

I’d seen Bunny Leigh, former teenage pop sensation, in my shop. She had not been showing any interest in our books or merchandise or even the props used to decorate the space, but rather paying an unusual amount of attention to Ashleigh. Ashleigh was now missing. Chances were good those two things were related.

I returned to my office, settled myself behind the computer, and opened the ever-reliable Google. I didn’t have to resort to anything sketchy or possibly verging on illegal to find out much of what I needed to know.

Bunny Leigh, as everyone had told me, had been a singing star in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A simple search of her name brought up hundreds of pictures. Her trademark look had been snug-fitting T-shirts sparkling with glitter and cute sayings, and short, brightly colored skirts worn with knee-high socks and sparkly trainers, what Americans call sneakers. Her hair was often colored to match the clothes and tied into tight bunches with bouncing bright ribbons. I played a couple of short tracks of her music. She had a not-bad voice, but it was pitched too high and too giggly for my taste, and the music behind it was mindless pop, each song sounding much the same, with lyrics the like of “ooh, ooh” and “baby, baby” and, for a change, “ooh, baby.” Her star had streaked brilliantly across the sky, but it had soon burned out, as is so often the case. Too much partying, too much alcohol, too many drugs, bad choices in boyfriends, all contributed to her decline. All that plus the simple fact that teenage tastes change rapidly, and new stars appear on the scene to flame out in their own turn. Bunny’s real name was Leigh Saunderson, and she was from Lincoln, Nebraska, and was still the pride of the local high school. She’d sung with a band in school, but she’d soon departed for the bright lights of L.A., leaving the bandmates and her school and family behind. When her singing star began to dim, she tried her hand at acting, but that hadn’t amounted to much, and according to IMDb, she hadn’t appeared in anything since 2012. I didn’t find much news about her after 2015. A few sightings at popular restaurants or at a party thrown by another of the rapidly aging people who’d also been a bright young thing around the time she had. A couple of “whatever happened to” articles. Her name had been linked with plenty of men over the years, but she’d only been married once, in 2017. The marriage hadn’t lasted more than a year. I studied a picture of the couple together, but nothing about him was familiar. There hadn’t been a single word about Bunny in the press in almost two years, until a small

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