Looks to Die For

Name: Looks to Die For
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Janice Kaplan
ISBN: 9781400173754

Author: Janice Kaplan

Narrator: Renée Raudman

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/27/2007

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars. But when her husband is accused of murdering a young wannabe actress, Lacy finds out she has a killer instinct for hunting down murderers as well as antique furniture.

Cleverly marrying the day-to-day foibles of family life with delicious insider glamour, Looks to Die For takes audiences behind the scenes of a fashionable world of gossip, name-dropping, and murder. This suspense-meets-shopping must-listen signals the arrival of a savvy and stylish new voice.

About Janice Kaplan

Janice Kaplan is the executive editor of Parade Magazine, the most widely read publication in America. Widely known for her achievements as a writer, television producer, and magazine editor, she was deputy editor of TV Guide magazine and executive producer of the TV Guide Television Group, where she created and produced television specials that aired primetime on ABC, FOX, VH1, and other networks. She began her career as an on-air sports reporter for CBS Radio and went on to be a producer at ABC-TV's Good Morning America, where she won awards for investigative reporting.

A former columnist at Seventeen magazine, Kaplan was a contributing editor at Vogue and has written hundreds of articles for national magazines. She is the author or coauthor of nine books, including the bestselling novels The Botox Diaries, Mine Are Spectacular! and The Men I Didn't Marry.

Kaplan has appeared frequently on Today, Entertainment Tonight, and CBS Early Show, and is a popular speaker around the country on women's issues. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and won Yale's Murray Fellowship for writing. Kaplan lives in Larchmont, New York, with her husband and has two sons at Yale.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Love on October 20, 2015

As the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars, Lacy Fields is stunned to the tips of her Chanel-manicured toenails the night the police barge into her house and haul her husband off in handcuffs. With her hand......more

Goodreads review by Ksafford on November 24, 2010

Never read anything by this author, so will see how it goes. Just on page 5. Well, I finished. It was okay for a very, very, light read. I don't know that I would read another by this author. It did not "grab" me and really hold my attention.......more

Goodreads review by Greer on May 30, 2018

This book caught me on the first sentence. Ok, this is a mystery book, we meet Lucy Fields a very rich house wife / home interior designer her husband the famous plastic surgeon the bratty daughter and smart son. Lucy’s husband Dan has been arrested for murder. Honestly I did not just give the plot......more

Goodreads review by Micheal on February 01, 2020

2.5 I started reading this book right after Social Crimes by Jane Hitchock, and this one seems like a watered-down version for the majority of the book. The first 3 chapters and the last 5 chapters are really good. It's just everything in between that was hard o digest. The middle chapters were long a......more

Goodreads review by Khanson919 on April 18, 2020

I feel like every decision Lacy Fields made in the course of investigating Tasha and Nora's murders, it was the wrong one. She blames herself for things that are not her fault, she let's her husband keep secrets from her when she needs to push him to tell her everything, and her dealings with the po......more