Well Read and Dead

<p>The return of blue-blooded fashionista Pauline Cook whose search for a missing friend leads her from an iconoclastic book group to the deepest and most unfashionable reaches of the Far East.</p><p>Back in Chicago after a disastrous European love affair socialite Pauline Cook finds her finances nearly depleted her co-op a shambles and her best friend mysteriously missing--vanished along with Pauline's cat. Though Whitney Armstrong's husband offers a substantial reward for the return of his lost wife Pauline can't help suspecting that his grief is merely an act. But it's a shocking suggestion by a member of Whitney's book club that really gets Pauline moving--halfway around the world in fact to Thailand . . . in spite of a psychic's warning of terrible danger.</p><p>In Asia a morass of dark motives and deadly corporate intrigues await the intrepid globe-trotter. And all the high society connections in the world aren't going to ensure that Pauline makes it home alive. . . . </p>