False Faces - Hardcover

Margolis, Seth J.

3.8

10 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312058187 ISBN 13: 9780312058180

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

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Alison thinks she knows her Fire Island roommate Linda well until the young woman is found murdered and the ensuing probe reveals more than Alison ever could have suspected

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From Publishers Weekly:

A beautiful, enigmatic weekender in yuppie Seaside Harbor, N.Y., is murdered one balmy summer night in this hip and urbane debut work. Ostensibly, Linda Levinson had no enemies. However, accounts vary about her character, as police officer Joe DiGregorio (Joe D) learns when he's assigned to the homicide investigation. To her roommate, Linda was a good though moody friend. To her latest one-night stand, Linda was a castrating bitch. To her boss, the dead woman was "quiet . . . sweet . . . didn't go out much." Turns out he was also her sugar daddy and extremely subjective about her personality. Acting on a hunch that the victim was leading a double life, Joe D discovers that Linda was running a stock-market scam. Her partner in the con becomes the chief suspect in her slaying, but soon turns up a homicide statistic himself. The murderer, trying to add Joe D to the growing list of victims, succeeds in putting him out of commission--briefly. Battered yet unstoppable, Joe D finds that the human ego can be a lethal weapon. With refreshing insight, Margolis conveys the intensity and the crass materialism that are the hallmarks of a certain breed of young professionals.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Fire Island cop Joe DiGregorio goes undercover to find out who killed quietly swinging single Linda Levinson on her way home from legendary nightspot Crane's. Disguised as an accountant(!), Joe D. takes a share in a local house, hunts up Linda's housemate Alison Rosen, finds himself in bed with her after their first evening at Crane's, and wonders how he's going to break the news to his almost- fianc‚e Marie, as he focuses on the three men in Linda's life: her long-standing married lover Jonathan Golland, her last one-night stand Rob Lewis, and Eric Farber, who turns out to be her partner in a securities scam. The plot lurches along rather than thickening; first it looks like Farber, then Lewis, then maybe Golland--no, Farber . . . First-novelist Margolis is best at evoking the intently vacuous ambiance of Fire Island (``I think you're ready for number two on your face''); his characters and mystery, though, are strictly from hunger. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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