Further Lane: A Novel (Beecher Stowe and Lady Alex Dunraven Novels)

Whether she's climbing Mt. Everest or making the perfect gingerbread house, lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting, dubbed "America's Homemaker," does everything with style. She even, it seems, has died with style-washed ashore naked near her East Hampton mansion with the take of a privet hedge driven through her heart. Though adored and emulated by millions, Hannah was the most despised woman in town.

Dispatched to get the story for Parade magazine, journalist Beecher Stow returns to his family home on Further Lane to dissect Cutting's past. Competing for the story is beautiful British book editor Lady Alix Dunraven, feverishly searching for the tell-all manuscript Cutting was writing before she was killed. Soon the two team up to investigate this catty crime in a fabulously entertaining romp through the Hamptons, replete with status battles, run-ins with the rich and famous-including Calvin Klein, Demi Moore and Barbara Streisand-and pretensions as high as the Hampton dunes...