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Simon & Schuster, February 2005
eBook, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0743271742
ISBN-13: 9780743271745
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Die A Little tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love and marries a glamorous yet mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant.
Lora soon begins to suspect that things aren't all they seem with Alice. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. She uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. But the deeper Lora digs to uncover Alice's secrets, the more her own life begins to resemble Alice's sinister past - and present.
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"Finally, here is a modern noir that perfectly depicts Raymond Chandler's 1950s L.A. in all its seamy, sexy corruption. In a thrilling portrayal of rival femme fatales -- one a denizen of L.A.'s demi monde, the other seemingly immune to its dark pull -- Megan Abbott's Die a Little mixes a potent cocktail of jealousy, obsession, and danger."
-- Lisa Scottoline, author of Killer Smile
Associated Content, September 23, 2011
...is a 10. Another 10 rating, well, at least a 9, lest I be thought too soft hearted: DIE A LITTLE by Megan Abbott. It even tempts me to read her only other book listed on the jacket: WHEN THE STREET WAS MINE, White Masculinity in Hardboiled ...
Detroit News, August 4, 2009
...For someone who grew up in palmy Grosse Pointe Woods, author Megan Abbott likes to prowl seedy back streets in her noir fiction. It's a pulp-fiction world where bad things happen to people with problems. Big problems. Take Marion Seeley. It ...
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