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It's mid-Winter in the Cornish seaside town of St Foy. In the midst of a family birthday party Emily Duggan, missing for three years and presumed dead after murdering her best friend Star Bright, arrives unannounced. To the bewilderment and shock of her family, Emily insists she didn't do it and has an alibi, but refuses to answer any questions.

The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and best-selling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect.

Julia Webster's husband, a U.S. Senator, has used his wife's graciousness and elegance to advance his career even as he's abused her trust at every turn and left her dreams for the future in tatters. Now, on the eve of his greatest political victory, he's about to learn a serious lesson in payback. Because the senator crossed the wrong woman...and there are six more where she came from.

Maggie Riley has settled into her new life in Thailand, working aboard her sailboat and doing her best to leave the past behind. When she receives a letter from a World War II vet claiming to have served with her grandfather who went missing in action, Riley is once again pulled into the intrigue that tore her family apart and led to the disappearance of her former search partner - and the love of her life.

Peluquerías, postizos, tinturas, cortes y extensiones, quirófanos, clínicas, lipos, liftings, flotadores, operaciones estéticas, residuos patógenos. Los ámbitos en que transcurre y el vocabulario que ilumina esta siniestra historia protagonizada por Ruth Epelbaum –la detective creada por Krimer en Sangre kosher– nos anticipan que en esta novela, como siempre, las mujeres se hacen cargo, padecen, disfrutan, ponen el cuerpo. Y lo pone sobre todo la entrañable Ruth.