Janet
Petrocelli, a gimlet-eyed sleuth, is a recovering therapist. She had a
practice in New York City, but career burnout -- combined with the
implosion of her marriage to the Asshole -- made her rethink her life.
A
junque junkie, Janet buys a small building in a quirky Hudson River
town. She opens a used-stuff shop downstairs and lives above. It doesn’t
take her long to realize that the valley is filled with people who are
every bit as fascinating, delightful, degenerate, sexy and dangerous as
anyone she knew down in the city.
And
while Janet may think she wants less to do with “that overrated,
self-obsessed, narcissistic species – the human race”, in fact, her
voracious curiosity and her passion for the lost, the wounded, and the
underdog inevitably draw her into the heart of darkness.
In To the Manor Dead,
Janet becomes entangled with one of the Valley’s aristocratic old
families -- the Livingstons – who have gone to seed in pretty
spectacular fashion. She is led into a web of drugs, depravity, greed
and, of course, murder.
Sebastian Stuart
has been a full-time writer for more than twenty years. He is the
author of plays, screenplays, political satire, and critically acclaimed
novels, including The Hour Between, and was the credited ghostwriter of
the novel Charm!, which spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Sebastian Stuart
has been a full-time writer for more than twenty years. He is the
author of plays, screenplays, political satire, and critically acclaimed
novels, including The Hour Between, and was the credited ghostwriter of
the novel Charm!, which spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
