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Hollywood Husbands is a 1986 novel by the British author Jackie Collins. It was her 11th novel, and the second in her "Hollywood" series, after her 1983 hit Hollywood Wives.
Hollywood Husbands is an unrelated sequel to Hollywood Wives and features a new cast of characters. Although it continues the theme of power and celebrity in Hollywood, the novel also contains a mystery plot about a young girl from a small American town, who was sexually abused and later left for dead. Years later, the Hollywood husbands may be the ones to feel the heat of her burning revenge.
STORY - Oscar winning Hollywood actress Clarissa Browning had a traumatic past. Right from her childhood, she was repeatedly sexually abused by a series of men, including her own father. Her horrific experiences turned her into a psychotic serial killer and her oppressors became her victims. Anonymously she kept on running from one place to another after burning her tormentors to death, leaving no trails for the police to track her down. Fifteen years later she emerged as a most successful award winning Hollywood actress who used men as they had once used her. Her last plan was to explode the luxury yacht of a multi billionaire where all the Hollywood celebrities had gathered to attend the gala New Year's Eve party. These were the same people who did not bother to raise a finger when a superstar, in a drunken brawl, beat a lesser entity to death, to safeguard their own personal interests. Will Clarissa's plan for vengeance succeed?
Collins went on to pen several more "Hollywood" titled books, including Hollywood Kids , Hollywood Wives: The New Generation , and Hollywood Divorces. Although these further novels tend to be separate works rather than direct sequels, characters from the original Hollywood Wives have made brief appearances in the other novels.