Hollywood Potboiler From Jackie Collins

(CBS)  English novelist Jacqueline "Jackie" Collins has been creating saucy Hollywood page-turners for years. Now she's back with her new book, "Poor Little Bitch Girl."

The book about the murder of a Hollywood actress - with her movie star husband as the prime-suspect - has a lot of colorful backdrops with characters jetting from New York and Washington to L.A. and Las Vegas.

There is no shortage of juicy storylines in the novel, which hits store shelves today. In "Girl," the movie-star couple has an estranged daughter, who runs a call-girl ring in New York City and lives with her drug-addict boyfriend.

Think it sounds a lot like some other Collins novels? Well, the Hollywood landscape has changed since Collins wrote "Hollywood Wives" back in the '80s.

"When I wrote "Hollywood Wives," the book that really put me out there, that was in the '80s and the wives of the talk-show hosts and the moguls and the producers ran Hollywood," Collins, a former actress, said in an interview on ABC-TV.

She pointed out that Hollywood wives used to orchestrate all the social aspects of the town, and now it's run by "business suits."

"People who don't really know anything about the creative process are running Hollywood now," she said. "They have these bad boys who run around thinking, 'Ah, this is what everybody wants to see -- a 16-year-old boy getting laid.'"

Collins has written about 30 books, 26 of which have made The New York Times bestsellers list. She has sold 400 million copies worldwide in 40 countries.

She is also the younger sister of actress, Joan Collins.