No one brings alive the intrigues of the champagne set like Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Now Jo Slater, the wily heroine of her best-selling novel Social Crimes, returns in a dazzling new story of passion, money, and murder. Jo is in Barbados, preoccupied by the notion of a new romance with a dashing English lord, when Russell Cole, a fabulously wealthy art collector, disappears from his yacht. Jo suspects that Russell's wife knows a great deal more about her husband's disappearance than she is letting on. Back in New York, Jo discovers that a figure from her own past continues to put her at great risk and that neither the urbane lord nor her missing friend's wife are what they appear to be.
"Hitchcoch' s mysteries are savy social satires and well-constructed clocks, ticking down to nail-biting elimaxes."
--New York Post--
"A delicious dark truffle to devour in one bite...a witty, elegant fiction about the lowdown behavior of high society. If it is fiction."
--Barbara Goldsmith--
"Beyond an elaborate plot featuring a swingdle involving Marie Antoinette, Social Crimes doubles as a primer on decorating and entertaining, upscale dos and don't gleaned from the gilded set Ms. Hitchcock knows so well."
--New York Times