About the Author

GAYLE LYNDS is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Coil" and "Masquerade." She also co-authored "The Paris Option" with Robert Ludlum.
RITA MAE BROWN, the author of the bestselling Mrs. Murphy mysteries, is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and poet.
MARCIA TALLEY is the Agatha and Anthony-award-winning author of the Hannah Ives mysteries, including the most recent, "In Death's Shadow." She is the editor of "I'd Kill for That."
LISA GARDNER is the" New York Times" bestselling author of multiple suspense novels, including "The Survivors Club," soon to be a TV movie on CBS.
LINDA FAIRSTEIN, is the author of the "New York Times" bestselling Alexandra Cooper series of crime novels, including most recently, "The Kills."
KAY HOOPER is the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Noah Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series, most recently the hardcover bestseller "Sense of Evil."
KATHY REICHS, a forensic anthropologist, is the author of the "New York Times" bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, most recently Bare Bones and, forthcoming, Monday Mourning.
JULIE SMITH, a former reporter and Edgar Award-winning novelist, is the author of two mystery series set in New Orleans, featuring Detective Skip Langdon and P.I. Talba Wallis.
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HEATHER GRAHAM (pseudonym Shannon Drake) is the "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author of over one hundred novels, the latest being "Dead on the Dance Floor" and "Picture Me Dead."
JENNIFER CRUSIE is the multi-award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Crazy for You, Fast Women, Faking It, and most recently, Bet Me.
TINA WAINSCOTT is the award-winning author of Unforgivable, Now You See Me, and I'll be Watching You.
ANNE PERRY is the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Dials, No Graves as Yet, and Death of a Stranger.
KATHERINE NEVILLE is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of The Eight and The Magic Circle. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Reviews

"Each chapter flows smoothly into the next so that it feels like one author wrote this tale. Marcia Talley and her dozen cohorts deserve kudos for this successful project." --"Midwest Book Review"
"A thoroughly enjoyable tale." --"Booklist"
"A diverting tale of murder among the social elite..." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Each contributor plants the seeds of skullduggery and suspicion so generously and harvests the earlier copr so conscientiously that the story miraculously avoids the besetting sin of such productions: contradiction and incoherence." --"Kirkus"
"A spicy, witty whodunit. --"Baltimore Sun"