New 12 months’s Eve Homicide (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 12)

After the annual parade of Christmas presents in Tinker’s Cove has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are able to ring within the new yr in type. Elizabeth has gained mom/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie journal! However the all-expenses-paid journey is certain to have some hidden costs–and one among them is homicide. . .

After lastly arriving on the places of work of Jolie, assembly their fellow makeover candidates, and being handled to a trend present, Elizabeth is enamored of the acute outfits and stick-thin models–while Lucy’s having some misgivings. The pampering is sweet and the glitz and glamour of high fashion is bizarrely fascinating, however bitterness and aggression lurk behind Jolie’s hipper-than-thou façade. And issues flip downright ugly when self-absorbed trend editor Nadine Nelson falls mysteriously sick after which dies. . .

Lucy noticed first-hand a few of the backstabbing occurring at Jolie. And the red-hot rumor mill quickly reveals that the cliquish connection among the many journal’s cabal of high-style executives has stirred up loads of unhealthy blood over time. However this Manhattan homicide thriller hits too near residence when Elizabeth will get rushed to the hospital with signs which might be disturbingly just like Nadine’s. Now, it is as much as Lucy to decorate down a killer earlier than the ball drops in Instances Sq.. . .