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Under My Skin, The Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels

A private eye infiltrates a health spa in this witty crime novel from the CWA Silver Dagger Award–winning author of The Birth of Venus

Dead carp floating in the Jacuzzi isn’t the latest youth and beauty elixir for the elite patrons of Castle Dean spa, and owner Olivia Marchant is desperate to find the culprit before she loses all her clients. London PI Hannah Wolfe is plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled while trying to uncover a spiteful saboteur who isn’t above putting maggots in the yogurt and nails in the massage heads. Olivia also wants the sleuth to look into a series of threatening notes someone has been sending her husband, Maurice.

Celebrity plastic surgeon Maurice Marchant has left some very disgruntled former patients in his wake. Women who have gone under his knife are now coping with less-than-perfect liposuction, drooping faces, and breast enlargements that went south. And when the case morphs into murder, Hannah confronts an embarrassment of suspects with means, motive, and opportunity.

Tracking a killer while running surveillance on her sister’s potentially philandering husband takes Hannah out of her comfort zone and into a rarefied world where appearances aren’t just deceiving—they’re deadly.

The quest for beauty is taken to diabolical lengths in this smart thriller from New York Times–bestselling author Sarah Dunant—a must-read for fans of Kinsey Millhone and Philip Marlowe.

Under My Skin is the 3rd book in the Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant (b. 1950) was born in London and studied history at Cambridge University. After a short stint as an actress, she lived and worked in Japan, and traveled widely in Asia before returning to London to start work with the BBC as a cultural journalist. For the next twenty-five years, she ran two simultaneous careers: presenting and producing arts programs for television and radio; and writing novels, screenplays, contemporary thrillers, and a set of three crime novels starring PI Hannah Wolfe. During the late 1990s, Dunant returned to her first love, history, and throughout the last fifteen years has produced five novels set during the Italian renaissance, fusing cutting-edge historical research with dynamic story lines. The first three investigated the lives of women, as mothers, wives, courtesans, and nuns. Her most recent, Blood and Beauty, dramatizes the real history—as opposed to popular myths—of the Borgia family and the remarkable period of Italian history in which they lived. The as-yet-untitled sequel will be published in early 2017. She has taught renaissance studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and is a tutor in the creative writing masters program at Oxford Brookes University, where she is about to be awarded a doctorate of letters. Dunant has lectured at festivals and conferences around the world and is an accredited lecturer with NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Society) in the UK.
 

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