Smoke in Mirrors
Kindle Edition
Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · October 29, 2002
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young.
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- Who it’s for
- For a suspenseful tangle of stolen money, a decades-old murder, and uncertain trust.
- Genres
- Romantic Suspense, Romance, Mystery
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, October 29, 2002
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A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora.
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And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House—the place where Meredith engineered her final deception and a set of newspaper stories about an unsolved murder that occurred there thirty years ago. Now Leonora has an offer for Thomas Walker, another victim of Meredith’s scams and seductions. She’ll hand over the money—if he helps her figure out what’s going on. Meredith had described Thomas as “a man you can trust.” But in a funhouse-mirror world of illusion and distortion, Leonora may be out of her league…
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For a suspenseful tangle of stolen money, a decades-old murder, and uncertain trust.
Come here for
- A mystery shaped by old deception, missing money, and an unsolved murder
- Romantic suspense where trust comes with a question mark
Expect
- A search into the secrets surrounding Mirror House
- Leonora and Thomas navigating a world of illusion and distortion
Where it sits
| Romantic Suspense | 100% |
|---|---|
| Mystery | 46% |
| Romance | 20% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women Detectives
- Romantic Suspense
- Suspense
- Authors
- Jayne Ann Krentz
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 29, 2002
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Women Detectives