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Still Lives: The stunning Reese Witherspoon Book Club mystery

Still Lives: The stunning Reese Witherspoon Book Club mystery

by Maria Hummel (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $15.85
Synopsis

'A thrilling mystery... still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good'
REESE WITHERSPOON

A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK
A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB PICK
1 OF 22 NEW BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER (TIME)
1 OF 20 NEW BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)

Kim Lord's face looked back at me, disguised in paint and the features of a murdered woman.

Revered artist Kim Lord is about to unveil her most shocking show yet: Still Lives, a series of self-portraits in which she impersonates the female victims of America's most famous homicides, from Nicole Brown Simpson to the Black Dahlia.

As celebrities and rich patrons pour into L.A.'s Rocque Museum for the opening night, the attendees wait eagerly for Kim's arrival. All except Maggie Richter, museum editor and ex-girlfriend of Greg Shaw Ferguson, Kim's new boyfriend. But Kim never shows up to her party and the crowd's impatience slowly turns to unease.

When Greg is arrested on suspicion of murder, it seems that life is imitating art. Has Kim suffered the same fate as the women in her paintings? As Maggie is drawn into an investigation of her own, she uncovers dark and deadly truths that will change her life forever...

Perfect for fans of Perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies.

PRAISE FOR STILL LIVES:

'Wonderful... delicate... delightful' Sunday Times

'Reese Witherspoon's new Book Club pick may be her boldest choice yet' Entertainment Weekly

'A gripping and entertaining mystery, and a biting cultural critique that seeks to understand our obsession with the violent deaths of beautiful women' Bustle

'A taut thriller... she writes a hell of an ending' LA Review of Books

'Will have readers feverishly turning pages... It's a stunning achievement' LA Times

'A smart, opinionated thriller' The Pool

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Quercus
Published: 01 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1787479560
ISBN 13: 9781787479562

Media Reviews
A thrilling mystery... still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good * Reese Witherspoon *
Wonderful... delicate... delightful * Sunday Times *
[A] smart, opinionated thriller * The Pool *
Savvy and lyrical - the perfect beach read * Wall Street Journal *
A deeply affecting examination of how our culture fetishizes female victims of crime -it will also have readers feverishly turning pages... a stunning achievement * LA Times *
The fast-paced feminist thriller about the L.A. art world you don't want to miss... An electrifying mystery * Bustle *

Gripping... the smartest, most original page-turner I've read in a long time

* Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements *
A taut thriller with a delectable final 100 pages. It reaches an addictive pitch that all books of this ilk aspire to... and she writes a hell of an ending * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Sucks you into a compelling story, before forcing you to contemplate the big, uncomfortable ideas it's considering. It's a fresh choice for Reese's Book Club, to be sure * Entertainment Weekly *
Moody and restless, propelled by a gradually intensifying sense of unease * Buzzfeed *
A whip-smart mystery and a moving meditation on the consumption of female bodies all rolled into one * Kirkus *
A mysterious page turner * Time Magazine *
Author Bio
MARIA HUMMEL is the author of Motherland, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. She worked as a writer/editor at MOCA in Los Angeles, then received a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and taught there for many years. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont, and lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.