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   Removed from the gritty streets of Chicago, the residents of the North Shore sleep easily in their million dollar homes. Easily, that is, until a local girl is discovered bludgeoned to death in the woods. Quick to blame the man with the bat, the North Shore returns to its version of normalcy. But the accused's sister isn't so willing to forget and hires Georgia Davis—former cop and newly-minted PI—to look into the incident. What Georgia finds hints at a much different, darker answer. It seems that some privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen. And while these girls can now pay for Prada, iPhones, and Jimmy Choos with their earnings, they don't realize that their new business venture may end up costing them more than they can afford...

"...a story with enough twists and turns to keep you reading to the end. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (Starred Review), March 1, 2008

Hellman's cool style and sleight-of-hand plotting draw you in deep before you know what's happened. -- S.J. Rozan, author of IN THIS RAIN

This is good stuff, very good stuff--a tough and tender book that will long be remembered by me. -- Stuart Kaminsky, author of THE DEAD DON'T LIE