The main character, Lacey, is a serious journalist stuck writing a fashion review. When her hair dresser is murdered, the victims coworkers look to Lacey to solve the case before the killer strikes again.With no apparent motive and no shortage of shadey characters Lacey has plenty of suspects for this bizzare murder. While both her incredible sense of style and her sexy ex come in handy it's her quick wit that gives Lacey the edge she'll need to solve this case.
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The review of this Book prepared by Stacie EIsemann
Signet, August 2003, 5.99, 288 pp.
ISBN 0451209486
Nobody wants to make an enemy of their hairdresser, so when her stylist Stella Lake asks her friend Lacey Smithsonian to attend a viewing, she goes. The dead woman is a young hairdresser named Angie who has a bald do and cut wrists. The police think she committed suicide especially with the bloody note written on her mirror in the salon. Stella knows that Angie was murdered and she wants her reporter friend Lacey to prove it.
Lacey is a fashion columnist not an investigative reporter and at first rejects the idea out of hand. After thinking about it, she realizes that Angie's hair is missing. She writes a column about Angie and through a combination of circumstances finds herself in the middle of the investigation especially when another hair dresser dies and Lacey is the only one who sees the link. She continues to dig for information and ends up being stalked by a killer who wants to make her his next victim.
The protagonist's running commentary on social mores in Washington D.C. is hilarious and her pithy observations about fashion and its relationship with scandal, the law and murder will have readers in tears of laughter (don't wear fashionable mascara). The who-done-it is intelligently plotted and there is a plethora of suspects who could be the guilty party. The audience will go crazy trying to figure out who the killer is while the heroine goes nuts trying to figure out if a sexy security guard from her past is interested in her or her murder theory.
Harriet Klausner
The review of this Book prepared by Harriet Klausner
