Title: Killer Wasps
Genre: Mystery/Detective
Author: Amy Korman
Publish Date: September 16, 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins
Synopsis
Crime really stings in Killer WASPs.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is a haven for East Coast WASPs, where tennis tournaments and cocktails at the club are revered traditions. Little happens in the sleepy suburb, and that is the way the Lilly Pulitzer–clad residents prefer it. So when antiques store owner Kristin Clark and her portly basset hound stumble upon the area's newest real estate developer lying unconscious beneath the hydrangea bushes lining the driveway of one of Bryn Mawr's most distinguished estates, the entire town is abuzz with gossip and intrigue.
When the attacker strikes again just days later, Kristin and her three best friends—Holly, a glamorous chicken nugget heiress with a penchant for high fashion; Joe, a decorator who's determined to land his own HGT V show; and Bootsie, a preppy but nosy newspaper reporter—join forces to solve the crime. While their investigation takes them to cocktail parties, flea markets, and the country club, they must unravel the mystery before the assailant claims another victim.
Fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series will enjoy shaking up the Philadelphia Main Line
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Bootsie, who graduated from
high school with me fifteen years ago, is six feet tall, has chin-length blonde
hair and a permanent tennis tan, and is married to a former Duke lacrosse star
named Will, whom she met through her equally bronzed, blond brothers. Bootsie
and I don’t have much in common, but we’ve stayed friends over the years—she
works just down the street from my store, at the Bryn Mawr Gazette, the local newspaper in our small town outside of
Philadelphia, where she covers both real estate and charity events. Basically,
she writes about gossip.
Working at the newspaper is
perfect for Bootsie, because she’s incredibly nosy. She has a network of family
members and friends placed around the suburbs of Philly who funnel her
information each day. When she’s not on her cell phone, she’s working the
aisles of the Publix, the liquor store, and the post office. She’s honestly
pretty talented at intelligence-gathering: Bootsie once called me in the middle
of the night to tell me that my
friend Holly Jones was getting divorced, which Holly herself didn’t even know
until the next morning.
“You probably remember Will’s
cousin Louis from our Christmas party,” Bootsie went on. “Tall? Blond? Big on
golf and skiing?” This described every member of the McElvoy clan, but I nodded
agreement.
“Louis is a lawyer, and he’s defending Barclay
in a lawsuit about those townhouses Barclay built that fell into the giant
sinkhole. And Louis got a call from Barclay’s wife at one-thirty this morning
about the attack on Barclay,” said Bootsie triumphantly, pleased that her
husband had such a useful person for a cousin. “Of course, the police called
Barclay’s wife to let her know about him being attacked, even though Barclay
and his wife are in the middle of a an epic divorce. So, anyway, Louis got the
police report faxed over, which said that a Kristin Clark—you, that is”—with this, Bootsie pointed a tennis-tanned finger at
me—“found Barclay after he’d been bashed in the head with something heavy. Like
a hammer.”
About the Author
Amy Korman is a former senior editor and staff writer for Philadelphia Magazine, and author of Frommer’s Guide to Philadelphia. She has written for Town & Country, House Beautiful, Men’s Health, and Cosmopolitan. Killer WASPS is her first novel.
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Amy Korman is a former senior editor and staff writer for Philadelphia Magazine, and author of Frommer's Philadelphia and the Amish Country. She has written for Town & Country, House Beautiful, Men's Health, and Cosmopolitan. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family and their basset hound, Murphy.
