Little Pretty Things
Seventh Street Books · Paperback · July 7, 2015
Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner!
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- Who it’s for
- An old rivalry becomes a tense murder mystery about envy, friendship, and what remains worth protecting.
- Themes
- Long-running rivalry, Jealousy
- Genres
- Suspense, Mystery, Domestic Thrillers
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Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner! OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO. Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she’s still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel that attracts only the cheap or the desperate. But what life won’t provide, Juliet takes. Then one night, Maddy checks in.
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Well-dressed, flashing a huge diamond ring, and as beautiful as ever, Maddy has it all. By the next morning, though, Juliet is no longer jealous of Maddy—she’s the chief suspect in her murder. To protect herself, Juliet investigates the circumstances of her friend’s death. But what she learns about Maddy’s life might cost Juliet everything she didn’t realize she had.
Rivalry Turns Deadly
An old rivalry becomes a tense murder mystery about envy, friendship, and what remains worth protecting.
Come here for
- A suspect investigating the death of her old friend
- High-school rivalry resurfacing ten years later
Expect
- A woman-led murder mystery
- Suspense threaded with envy, friendship, and hard choices
Where it sits
| Domestic Thrillers | 30% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 22% |
| Mystery | 19% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women Detectives
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Lori Rader-Day
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- July 7, 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Long-running rivalry · Jealousy
- Reading lane
- Women Detectives