Manor House
“Manor House kept me riveted until the end. Mrs. Rense writes about a rarefied world in which she moves effortlessly, as one of the keenest observers of her era.”
Dominick Dunne, New York Times bestselling author
Meet Pierpont Tree and China Carlyle. He’s the devastatingly handsome and urbane scion of an old Santa Barbara family; she’s the ravishingly beautiful, flame-haired film star who retired at the peak of her career. Together, they investigate murders.
Late one night at the California headquarters of the lavish design magazine Manor House, a dark figure puts a bullet through the head of flamboyant editor-in-chief Beau Paxton. The murder leaves Pier and China with quite a crowd of suspects: the twin brothers who own Manor House and hold a multimillion-dollar insurance policy on Beau’s life; the beautiful young managing editor, the real brains behind Beau’s flashy, figurehead position; and a whole world of designers and dealers, players and wanna-bes, high rollers and lowlifes, whose ambitions make Manor House a magazine to die for.
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