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Damage Control
By Denise Hamilton
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Critically acclaimed author Denise Hamilton weaves an engrossing story of teenage friendship and adult betrayal, featuring a high-powered crisis consultant who gets swept up in murder and scandal involving a wealthy political family.

Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She is doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite PR firm in Southern California whose clients include movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, a distinguished statesman who also happens to be the father of Anabelle, Maggie’s estranged best friend from high school.

Senator Paxton’s young female aide has been found murdered, and Maggie must run damage control to prevent the scandal from growing. Thrown back into the Paxtons’ glamorous world, Maggie is unexpectedly flooded with memories from the stormy years in high school when her friendship with Anabelle was dramatically severed after a tragedy that neither of them has been able to forget. As Maggie gets further embroiled in the lives of the Paxtons, she realizes that the ties of her old friendship are stronger than she thinks.

Riveting and suspense-filled, Damage Control examines our craving for celebrity and spectacle, and how far the bonds of friendship can stretch before they break forever.
"A riveting stand-alone thriller. . . . In a novel that marries celebrity culture, surf noir and the bonds of friendship, Hamilton is at the top of her game."
-- Kirkus
“Denise Hamilton scores her largest and greatest triumph: Damage Control is a great mystery, and, much more rarely, a superb psychological thriller. Kudos to this brilliant talent.”
-- James Ellroy
"You can't beat L.A.-based noir for moodiness, and no one writes it better than Denise Hamilton."
-- USA Today
"Hamilton has constructed an intricate and finely-balanced thriller that joins all the flavors and worlds of southern California into a heady cocktail of sex, celebrity, and consequence."
-- BN.com
"A tale about unbridled ambition, friendship and betrayal... A welcome return."
-- Oline Cogdill, Associated Press
“You can’t beat LA-based noir for moodiness, and no one writes it better than Denise Hamilton.”
-- USA Today
“The mystery Hamilton conjures is convincing, and she has a fine and accurate eye for how privileged Anglenos live. But it’s her ability to pull the curtain back on the often-opaque world of crisis management that will stay with you long after the novel is finished.”
-- NPR.org
“A tale about unbridled ambitioin, friendship, and betrayal….Realistic characters live in Hamilton’s L.A., where the division between the haves and the have-nots can be immense. . . . A welcome return.”
-- Sun-Sentinel
'Damage Control': Privilege And Murder, L.A. Style
NPR, September 7, 2011
...The heroine of Denise Hamilton's latest novel is a crisis management expert charged with cooling down the media maelstrom after an old friend is involved in a high-profile crime. » E-Mail This      ...
Uncommon Scents: Truly mysterious perfumes flourish in life -- and in literature
Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2011
...her nose. ‘It’s bleak, all right...I’ll stick with my Charlie. Revlon makes some fine perfumes.’ ” DENISE HAMILTON is a Los Ange-les crime novelist. Visit her at denisehamilton.com. Categories: Uncommon Scents You can follow this ...
Uncommon Scents: Truly mysterious perfumes flourish in lifeand in literature
Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2011
...her nose. ‘It’s bleak, all right...I’ll stick with my Charlie. Revlon makes some fine perfumes.’ ” DENISE HAMILTON is a Los Ange-les crime novelist. Visit her at denisehamilton.com. Categories: Uncommon Scents You can follow this ...
10 Thrillers to Watch for This Fall
Kirkus Reviews, August 30, 2011
...from a police detective as well as the young delinquents soon to become infamous as the Purple Gang. Damage Control, by Denise Hamilton (September): The creator of the Eve Diamond series (Prisoner of Memory) takes a different tack in this ...
Mystery authors to appear at Velma Teague Branch Library
Glendale Star, August 18, 2011
...Denise Hamilton will sign her book, "Damage Control" Sept 14 for the upcoming Authors @ the Teague event. Damage Control Did Not Finish Simon Wood will sign his book, "Did Not ...
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