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THE LADY UPSTAIRS
A deliciously dark thriller crackling with wit and a feminist voice, this is the timely story of a woman who builds a career taking down terrible men - and ultimately finds herself drawn into a dark criminal underworld that she can only escape by performing one final con.
Unlike most of the population of Los Angeles, Jo can truly say that she's made it in the city of broken dreams. She earns a living by blackmailing the city's most lecherous men: the handsy Hollywood producers, adulterous actors, and corrupt cops. She's motivated as much by the money she's earning - and the debt she's paying off - as by the good she tells herself she's doing for the women of L.A.
Eager to prove herself to her coworker Lou and their enigmatic boss, known only as the Lady Upstairs, Jo starts to take on bigger and riskier jobs. But when one of the men she's targeting turns up dead, both the Lady Upstairs and the LAPD have Jo in their sights. Desperate to escape the deadly consequences of her failed job, Jo decides to take on one last sting, bringing down a rising political star. It's her biggest con yet, and she'll do it behind the Lady's back. But Jo soon learns that Lou and the Lady have secrets of their own, and that no one is safe when there's a life-changing payout on the line.
Halley Sutton is an editor for Make Change Magazine, a fiction editor for Monday Night Lit literary magazine, and a 2018 Pitch Wars mentee. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's in writing from Otis College of Art and Design. Her work has appeared in academic journals, CrimeReads, Rose Red Review, and others.
Eager to prove herself to her coworker Lou and their enigmatic boss, known only as the Lady Upstairs, Jo starts to take on bigger and riskier jobs. But when one of the men she's targeting turns up dead, both the Lady Upstairs and the LAPD have Jo in their sights. Desperate to escape the deadly consequences of her failed job, Jo decides to take on one last sting, bringing down a rising political star. It's her biggest con yet, and she'll do it behind the Lady's back. But Jo soon learns that Lou and the Lady have secrets of their own, and that no one is safe when there's a life-changing payout on the line.
Halley Sutton is an editor for Make Change Magazine, a fiction editor for Monday Night Lit literary magazine, and a 2018 Pitch Wars mentee. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's in writing from Otis College of Art and Design. Her work has appeared in academic journals, CrimeReads, Rose Red Review, and others.
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Published 2020-07-14 by Putnam |