If Looks Could Kill Mass market paperback - 2005
by White, Kate
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
White's "New York Times" bestselling debut is now in paperback. New York true crime writer Bailey Weggins is dragged into a murder investigation by her boss, magazine editor Cat Jones, whose nanny is murdered by poisoned chocolate truffles meant for Cat.
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Details
- Title If Looks Could Kill
- Author White, Kate
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grand Central Publishing
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0446617695I3N00
- ISBN 9780446617697 / 0446617695
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman's magazine. Smart and savvy, she's got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it's murder. Bailey's in bed with her commitment-challenged lover K.C. when she gets a frantic call from her high-maintenance boss at Gloss magazine. Grabbing coffee and a cab outside her Greenwich Village apartment-the consolation prize in her divorce settlement-Bailey reluctantly heads uptown. At Cat Jones's Upper East Side town house, she finds something that seriously clashes with the chic decor: the dead body of the family's line-in nanny. As Bailey-unofficially-delves into the murdered girl's past, she finds no shortage of A-list suspects. But when a startling discovery suggests that Cat may have been the intended victim, Bailey is suddenly up to her bed head in high-profile investigation that's perfect fodder for a tabloid headline: Is someone trying to kill the editor's of women's magazines?With the spotlight on New York's glitzy media world, Bailey interviews back-stabbing editors, straying husbands, and one sexy, six-feet two psychologist who could make her decide to kick K.C. to the curb. Sporting her pair of red slingbacks and armed with the investigative skills she's honed as a true crime reporter, she sets out on a search that takes her from Manhattan's exclusive Carnegie-Hill area-the nanny heartland of America-to the ritzy weekend estates of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Bailey will need all her street smarts and some lightning-fast detective work to catch a killer who could end up deleting her name from the masthead for good.
First line
CAT JONES WAS the kind of woman who not only got everything in the world that she wanted-in her case a fabulous job as editor in chief of one of the biggest women's magazines, a gorgeous town house in Manhattan, and a hot-looking husband with a big career of his own-but over the years also managed to get plenty of what other women wanted: like their fabulous jobs and their hot-looking husbands.