Synopses & Reviews
Whether she's climbing Mt. Everest or making the perfect gingerbread house, lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting, dubbed "America's Homemaker," does everything with style. She even, it seems, has died with style-washed ashore naked near her East Hampton mansion with the take of a privet hedge driven through her heart. Though adored and emulated by millions, Hannah was the most despised woman in town.
Dispatched to get the story for Parade magazine, journalist Beecher Stow returns to his family home on Further Lane to dissect Cutting's past. Competing for the story is beautiful British book editor Lady Alix Dunraven, feverishly searching for the tell-all manuscript Cutting was writing before she was killed. Soon the two team up to investigate this catty crime in a fabulously entertaining romp through the Hamptons, replete with status battles, run-ins with the rich and famous-including Calvin Klein, Demi Moore and Barbara Streisand-and pretensions as high as the Hampton dunes...
Review
"Good, dirty fun and a must-read for anyone who loves, or hates, the Hamptons." --
Neal Travis, The New York Post"Cream-of-the-crop writing...no one does it with Brady's panache." --Liz Smith, Newsday
"All [suspects] must undergo the smart, delicious satirical scrutiny of Brady's journalist narrator, whose cool impression of a '90s-style Nick Carraway never falters." --Entertainment Weekly
About the Author
James Brady was a weekly columnist for
Advertising Age and
Parade magazines. His previous novels include
Paris One and
Designs, and he is author of the critically acclaimed memoir of Korea,
The Coldest War. He lived in Manhattan and on Further Lane, in East Hampton, New York.