Motherhood and murder link five very diffe rent women when a working-class detective clashes with wealthy moms in thi s upmarket thriller in the vein of May Cobb and Jeneva Rose.
\nAnder son Tupper\, a member of one of Atlanta&rsquo\;s richest families\, has be en murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunt eer coach\, and it&rsquo\;s up to Detective Shay Claypool\, a single mothe r from the other side of town\, to find his killer.
\nWith the exclu sive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and t ake its tax revenue with it\, Shay is under pressure to solve the murder o f one of Buckhead&rsquo\;s own. Accustomed to handling drug dealers and pr ostitutes\, she must now contend with an even more sinister group: the Buc khead Betties\, the insufferably entitled women of Georgia&rsquo\;s most a ffluent zip code. One of them might be a murderer\, but who? Is it the old -money queen of Buckhead? The mysterious new girl in town? The drug-dealin g trophy wife?
\nIt seems secrets and lies are as plentiful as luxur
y handbags in Atlanta and everyone&rsquo\;s guilty of something. Shay&rsqu
o\;s investigation will make her examine her own prejudices and discover t
hat\, as a woman and a mother\, she might not be that different from the B
etties after all. And if she isn&rsquo\;t careful\, they just might take h
er down with them.
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Leigh Dunlap is the screenwriter of the hit Warner Bros
&rsquo\; movie A Cinderella Story. A native of Los Angeles\, she
attended film school at the University of Southern California. She now spl
its time and personalities between South Carolina and South Kensington and
dreams of one day giving it all up and searching for buried treasure. Unt
il then\, she writes movies and books\, including Bless Your Heart\, her debut novel. \;
Samira Shakib-Bregeth is an Iranian-American writer from Chicago who lives and teaches in suburban Atlanta. Samira was the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award. She e arned an English M.A. in Literary Studies and is the Communications Manage r at Chestnut Review. Some of her publications can be found at Literar y Mama\, Hawai&rsquo\;i Pacific Review\, Wild Roof Journal\, Heartwood\, P arhelion\, Fig &\; Quince\, and Hungry Chimera. Currently on submission\, Samira&rsquo\;s #ownvoices novel with a feminist bent is about a struggling artist and her Iranian mother. Her manuscript was a fin alist in 2021 for UCLA&rsquo\;s Allegra Johnson&rsquo\;s Writing Prize.
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