Thursday, August 11, 2005
Good Girls Guide to Murder
AUTHOR McBride, Susan, 1964- TITLE The good girl's guide to murder : a debutante dropout mystery / Susan McBride. IMPRINT New York : Avon Books, c2005. DESCRIPT 353 p. ; 18 cm. SUBJECT Mystery fiction. ISBN 0060563907.
Unwillingly dragged back into her upper-crust mama's social whirl, Andy Kendricks sets out to find a killer when a body turns up in the rubble of the torched studio of an intolerable TV show hostess. Original.
Cissy Blevan Kendricks rules Dallas' high society Park Cities, and has propeled her friend Marilee Maybry success as a Martha Stewart-like domestic doyenne, with a show about to go national. Cissy's daughter Andy, the debutante drop out, is Marilee's web master, setting the web cams for the show launch celebration. All hell breaks loose at the launch, including a fire. Andy finds Marilee's angst ridden daughter unconscious in Marilee's office during the fire and brings firemen to her rescue, saving Kendall's life. Cissy and Andy suspect Kendall has been poisoned by her mothers gigalo, Justin Gable doping the Dom Perignon with an ephedra type herbal powder. Who dunnit? Then Marilee is dosed and dies of a "Death by Chocolate" cake while filming an episode on the Dallas Diet Club at Cissy's mansion. Who doctored the cake? And what is the real story behind her new neighbors, the Dr Beth and Mr. Taylor who finally broke the neighborhood color barrier.
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