基本信息出版社：Miramax
页码：368 页
出版日期：2005年06月
ISBN：1401352367
International Standard Book Number：1401352367
条形码：9781401352363
EAN：9781401352363
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
内容简介 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.
作者简介 Jane Stanton Hitchcock has written three previous novels, the best-selling Social Crimes, The Witches' Hammer, and Trick of the Eye, which was nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize as the Best First Novel of the Year. She lives in New York and Washington, D.C.
媒体推荐 "One Dangerous Lady is a delicious dark truffle to devour in one bite." -- Barbara Goldsmith
"One Dangerous Lady is one terrific book." -- Christopher Buckley
"A sleek and villainous tale." -- Dominick Dunne
"Deliciously dark... a killer read." -- People
"Hitchock's mysteries are savvy social satires and well-constructed clocks, ticking down to nail-biting climaxes." -- New York Post
"Jane Stanton Hitchcock is back and better than ever!" -- Linda Fairstein
"Pure pleasure for suspense fans." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting... She exposes the dark secrets of a rarified society." -- New York Post
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
New York grande dame Jo Slater, whose riches-to-rags-to-riches story entertained readers of Social Crimes, returns in Hitchcock's latest smart, genuinely funny novel to take on a sociopath socialite cutting a vicious swathe across Manhattan society. A Barbados wedding becomes the scandal of the year when the host, Russell Cole, a billionaire art collector with a psychiatric history, disappears off his yacht, and Jo puzzles over the suspect behavior of his much-younger second wife, Carla, an Italian with a shady past. Upon their return to New York, Carla angles for Jo's solidarity, but Jo, insightful and caustic, won't have any. Social life is hard work for these women, and Jo is soon vying for the upper hand in a deadly, high-stakes game with this ruthless social climber. (For Jo, a dinner party invitation from Carla heralds the "long reign of a rival queen in whose court I may very well become a prisoner.") Despite Jo's opposition, Carla achieves an exclusive co-op apartment (which she decorates "rococo-a-gogogo"), a seat on the board of the Municipal Museum along with Jo's resignation from said board, even Jo's romantic interest, Lord Max Vermillion. From Jo's first wry comment to her final maneuver, Hitchcock will have readers rooting for her to vanquish her nemesis. (July)
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