The Beauty - Hardcover

"A sexy, glitzy psychological thriller... Skewers social pretentiousness and gaucheness with an equally sharp scalpel...and an even sharper sense of humour." - Taconic Press "Has...a sense of mischief, sharp social observation, doses of complicated wisdom." - Kurt Anderson, author of Turn of the Century "Fill[ed] with lively characters...clever dialogue...flair." - Publishers Weekly "Enticing, thrilling." - Norman Lear

From the best-selling author of 'A House in the Hamptons' comes this gripping psychological thriller that combines the murderous suspense of 'Fatal Attraction' with the incisive social satire of Tom Wolfe. When the two women closest to him suddenly die, ex-crime reporter John Duckworth and his sister Faith jump at the chance to start over by opening the Inn at the End. They have no idea of the chilling villain awaiting them in Jasmine Jones, a beauty who walks into their inn in the first week of business and doesn't leave until their loves and loved ones are utterly destroyed.