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The Motive by Evelyn Piper is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Motive about?
Shirley Kolp finds the movie star sleeping in the park. Even before he speaks a word, she recognizes Gavin More — a Hollywood A-lister reduced to spending the night on a New York park bench. Feeling compassionate, she invites him to come up to her apartment and get out of the rain — for a cup of coffee and a place to sleep, nothing more. Gavin has just bedded down when the door opens and Shirley joins him, stark naked and rather less frumpy than she had looked before. It's a beautiful evening, but there's murder lurking in the air. The next morning, Shirley is found bludgeoned to death in the same park where she stumbled across Gavin. When her roommate, screenwriter Joe Anton, learns of the murder while sitting in his West Coast office, he's sick down to his soul. He begins asking questions that lead him to mysterious Gavin More, but the truth of the matter is stranger than anything a Hollywood playwright could devise.
Who reads The Motive?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Evelyn Piper
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (1,178 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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