Celebutantes: In the Club
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Publisher Description
The Hamilton triplets - Madison, Park, and Lexington - are accustomed to living in the public eye. Heiresses to a billion-dollar media empire, they have been raised in New York's most elite social circles and, at 16, know firsthand the demands of being celebutantes. There are people to impress, appearances to make, and paparazzi to outrun. Not to mention high school to finish.
The school year's almost over, and Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton are about to head to Capri. Before vacation comes work, however, and with the opening of Hamilton Holdings' latest venture, Cleopatra, the newest and most expensive club in Manhattan, the girls must throw one incredible opening night party.
Before the night ends, the body of classmate Damien Kittle is found in the club with a bloody wound on the side of his head and the high-heeled murder weapon lying nearby. The shoe belongs to another student: Concetta Conoli-an unfortunately unfashionable diet food heiress.
The paparazzi are having a field day, and they're determined to drag Cleopatra through the mud with Concetta. Madison, Park, and Lexington can't allow their club, and a fellow heiress, to be slandered in this fashion. The girls know the real murderer is still out there, and they're willing to bet their sizable inheritance that the police won't be able to unravel the mystery without their help.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This fun kick-off to Pagliarulo's (A Different Kind of Heat) Celebutantes series successfully mixes humor and suspense. Triplet New York City heiresses-Madison, Park and Lexington Hamilton-are at a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they stumble upon the murdered body of controversial magazine editor, Zahara Bell. The sisters find themselves suspects, along with two of their beaus (one of whom is an actor with a dark secret, the other, the son of their family's rival). To clear their names, the Hamilton sisters must balance serious detective work with some clever PR maneuvering. Additionally, they must escape the killer, who is sending them threatening messages, and recover a diamond, stolen from Bell's neck. Proving that "together, they were a force not even a killer could stop," the triplets break into the editor's house, steal a taxi and, after discovering that Bell was about to publish a scandalous article about their family, deflect attention by launching Lex's fashion line. But they never lose their sense of style along the way (when the killer text messages the girls: "Go to the police and you die in fleece," designer Lex shrieks "This killer is a sick puppy!") The mystery takes a little while to unravel and it does so in familiar fashion, but there are enough twists and clever touches to keep readers engaged. Ages 14-up.
