Cheating at Solitaire (Gregor Demarkian Novel) - Softcover

JANE HADDAM is the author of numerous novels, many featuring Gregor Demarkian, as well as numerous articles and stories published widely. A finalist for both the Edgar and Anthony Awards, she lives in Litchfield Country, Connecticut.

A stellar whodunit. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The small, exclusive Massachusetts island of Margaret s Harbor gets its fifteen minutes of fame when aging teen stars Arrow Normand and Marcey Mandret pay a visit to local celebrity heiress, Kendra Rhode. The girls drunken, disorderly behavior is being eaten up by the press until an even bigger media storm erupts.

Cheating at Solitaire has a sharply satirical edge as it takes on the cult of celebrity. Boston Globe

During a blizzard, Arrrow finds herself staggering around town, covered in blood and incoherently drunk. Meanwhile, her actor-boyfriend has been found shot dead in the front seat of a crashed truck. Now Arrow is cast as the only suspect in the crime and she can t remember a thing about the night in question.

A sly indictment of the cult of celebrity. Read this and liberate yourself from Page Six and TMZ. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Enter former F.B.I. agent Gregor Demarkian, who s flown in from Philadelphia to review the charges against Arrow. What he finds is a case with little evidence, an insatiable paparazzi, and a mare s nest of motives in what may be the most confusing, twisted role of Demarkian s lifetime.