Social Crimes

Description

New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s Social Crimes is a riveting thriller of manners, obsession, and revenge that scales the heights and plumbs the depths of the New York social scene.

When Jo Slater, one of New York’s premier socialites and a patron of the arts, befriends a French countess, she ignores warnings from friends about the mysterious newcomer. Soon, the young woman knocks Jo off her Park Avenue throne. But using her knowledge of the greatest historical swindle of all time–a true story involving Marie Antoinette–Jo sets out to reclaim her fortune and her place in society.

For the plan to work, however, she must resort to the most desperate of measures: murder. Social Crimes is a savvy social satire bursting with money, betrayal, and passion that will thrill readers of sophisticated mysteries.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Published: 06/04/2013
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062259233
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Hitchcock, Jane Stanton: –

Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the New York Times bestselling author of Mortal Friends, The Witches’ Hammer, Social Crimes, and Trick of the Eye, as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign-affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, D.C.