Well Read and Dead

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. . . .