James Patterson & Imogen Edwards-Jones: The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
With unparalleled ambition, instinctual physicality, keen business intelligence, and a remarkable sense of humor, Marilyn Monroe achieved sensational celebrity. Yet, she insisted, "I never really felt like a star. Not really, not in my heart."

​In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script for her ultimately unfinished film, Something's Got to Give.
In the weeks before her death, she drinks champagne on Santa Monica Beach with the last photographer to take her picture.
In the days before her death, she's a guest of Frank Sinatra in the Celebrity Room at the Cal-Neva Lodge.
In the hours before her death, she argues with U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and his brother-in-law Peter Lawford.
In an emergency session with her psychiatrist, she confesses: "Here I am, the most beautiful woman in the world, and I do not have a date for Saturday night."

On June 1, 2026, the world celebrates Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday. Without her.
In life, her superstardom defies classification.
In death, she remains shrouded in mystery.

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.

James Patterson & Imogen Edwards-Jones: The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe. A True-Crime Thriller. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 9780316580519 (December, 2025), 416 p., $32.00, eBook $15.99.

James Patterson & Imogen Edwards-Jones: The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
BORN IN THE SHADOWS. LIVED FOR THE SPOTLIGHT. WAS SHE MURDERED?
Before Marilyn Monroe, there was Norma Jeane. No one would have thought that the girl who spent her childhood between foster homes and orphanages would one day become a global star.

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe tells the extraordinary story of Marilyn Monroe's life - and the shocking circumstances of her death.

For decades, fans have speculated about the truth of her final days. Was it suicide? A tragic accident? Murder? Drawn from rigorous research, this book seeks answers.

Told in vivid, dramatic scenes, James Patterson and Imogen Edwards-Jones uncover the life and death of the remarkable woman who was Marilyn Monroe.

James Patterson & Imogen Edwards-Jones: The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe. Century, ISBN: 9781529928471 (July, 2025), 400 p., £20.00, eBook £8.99.