Well Read and Dead: A High Society Mystery

The return of blue-blooded fashionista Pauline Cook, whose search for a missing friend leads her from an iconoclastic book group to the deepest and most unfashionable reaches of the Far East.

Back in Chicago after a disastrous European love affair, socialite Pauline Cook finds her finances nearly depleted, her co-op a shambles, and her best friend mysteriously missing--vanished along with Pauline's cat. Though Whitney Armstrong's husband offers a substantial reward for the return of his lost wife, Pauline can't help suspecting that his grief is merely an act. But it's a shocking suggestion by a member of Whitney's book club that really gets Pauline moving--halfway around the world, in fact, to Thailand . . . in spite of a psychic's warning of terrible danger.

In Asia, a morass of dark motives and deadly corporate intrigues await the intrepid globe-trotter. And all the high society connections in the world aren't going to ensure that Pauline makes it home alive. . . .

Author: Catherine O'Connell
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 03/24/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.36w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780061673252

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2009 pg. 38
Library Journal 03/01/2009 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2009
Booklist 03/15/2009 pg. 47

About the Author
O'Connell, Catherine: -

Catherine O'Connell divides her time between Chicago and Aspen, and sits on the board of the Aspen Writers' Foundation. A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Journalism, she is also the author of Well Bred and Dead.