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    The Beautiful and the Wicked
    The Beautiful and the Wicked
    The Beautiful and the Wicked
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    The Beautiful and the Wicked

    By Liv Spector

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    In exclusive Star Island, Miami, blood isn't always thicker than water . . .

    The night of his fiftieth birthday, software billionaire Jack Warren went missing hundreds of miles out to sea, his blood spattered aboard his yacht. His mistress, Ava Day, was charged with his murder—but she had already vanished without a trace.

    Ten years later, detective Lila Day refuses to believe that her beloved sister, still in hiding after all these years, is a killer. To clear Ava's name and solve this long-cold case, Lila asks her friend Teddy Hawkins to do what he has done before: send her back in time, to solve the crime before it takes place.

    And so she goes back to 2008, with only a month to prove her sister's innocence and bring Warren's real killer to justice. Lila fakes her way onto his city-like yacht and learns everything there is to know about his inner circle and glamorous hangers-on—even his family and the crew are her suspects. But as she dives deeper into the world of corporate intrigue, and the night of Warren's birthday draws closer, the truth becomes murkier than ever. And then Lila makes a terrible discovery, one that changes everything she thought she knew about her sister—and herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9780062258496
    The Beautiful and the Wicked
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    Liv Spector

    Liv Spector was raised on Cape Cod and currently lives in Canada. She has worked as an oyster shucker, dancer, farmhand, journalist, and teacher. A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, she received her MFA from Brooklyn College.

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    • 5/5
      This was the first book I have read by this author and I was not disappointed at all. The characters and scenes were well developed and complex, my favorite kind. The speed of the book was perfect, slow at times and speeding up at just the right times to the climax. The author is excellent at written prose and I found myself at the end, wanting so much more after going on an emotional roller coaster with the characters and in my opinion, that is the best kind of book to read. I will be reading every book by this author I can get my hands on!
    • 3/5
      After 10 years, Detective Lila Day still refuses to believe that her sister is a cold-blooded killer. To clear Callie’s name and solve this long-cold case, Lila asks her friend Teddy Hawkins to do what he has done before—send her back to time, to solve the crime before it takes place. (adapted from Amazon description)While the premise is intriguing, this story failed to capture my interest. The characters were one-dimensional and I really didn't like any of them that much - including the heroine.And so she goes back to 2008, with only a month to prove her sister’s innocence and bring Warren’s real killer to justice.
    • 3/5
      This was quite a fun read, with suspects abounding. Although the descriptions were largely pedestrian and cliched, I thoroughly enjoyed myself while reading about Lila Day and her time-traveling adventure to solve an old case and clear her sister's name.
    • 4/5
      I received this book for free through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers.This book was as enjoyable as the first one. Lots of rich people spending ridiculous amounts of money. Like the first one, it keeps you guessing until the end.
    • 3/5
      (Early Reviewer book)I was really excited to get an Early Reviewer copy of this book, as I had also gotten an Early Reviewer copy of the first book in this series, and really enjoyed it. While The Beautiful and the Wicked wasn't quite as good as the first book, it was still a good read. The premise of the series is that Lila Day, the protagonist, is a former homicide detective who know goes back in time to solve cold cases. It seems like it could be silly, but its surprisingly not, and the mysteries are filled with great twists (especially towards the very ends), while the characters are well-differentiated and interesting.
    • 5/5
      First of all, I don't usually read books that involve time travel. It usually doesn't work well. So I was a little hesitant to read this story, which I got free from LibraryThing. I am happy to say the time traveling was kept to a minimum, and handled very well. Beyond that, this is a very smart mystery. Can't say much about it because I don't want to spoil it for you. I can say that things are not what they seem. I was satisfied with the resolution of the mystery and with the way time travel was handled.
    • 3/5
      I received this mystery as an early reviewer. I have not read Spector's first book, "The Rich and the Dead," which got good reviews. This one is entertaining.The plot is interesting and the conclusion unexpected. My copy is an uncorrected proof, so I'm confident "The Beautiful and the Dead" will undergo further editing before release. I'm sure typos and grammatical inconsistencies will be corrected, as well as noticeable multiple repetition of some words ("grabbed" and "sweet," for example, and, while someone's "mane" is used, I think, only twice, the instances are separated only by a couple of paragraphs). I also hope author and editor will go through the book one last time to herd back into the fold occasional wandering points of view and to trim excess exposition. The latter in particular is problematic; the narrator a number of times draws back from what should be suspenseful action to talk about what the protagonist feels and why. Most of the time the extra is unnecessary—the dialogue and actions express it already. The extra description intrudes on the scene, protracts it, and to some degree derails the suspense. Perhaps more is made of the character's use of time travel in the first of the series. Almost nothing was made of it here. No explanation of how it is possible, how the man who developed it was able to do so, and very little concern expressed about any problems or dangers in its use. Once in a while Lila thinks about not altering history, but there are few, if any, technical guidelines for her actions. The time machine is just accepted, hardly more startling or exciting than a helicopter. Another problem was that I kept forgetting that Lila was a detective. Probably her background is developed a great deal more in the first book, but it did seem that, during the years since her sister had disappeared from the yacht, blamed for the murder of its owner, Lila would have researched the yacht and its layout as well as the duties of the staff. That she didn't know where the galley was, for instance, seemed unlikely. She might not have had actual experience on a boat—that she might be seasick at first was easy to accept—but surely her massive research over the years, and maybe more once she decided to go back in time to investigate, would have resulted in her knowing quite a bit, even if theoretical. "The Beautiful and the Wicked" has a lot going for it, and hopefully Ms. Spector's editor will support one more revision before release to make it the exciting and unusual mystery it should be.

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