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Learn moreMaggie Silver does her best to scramble up the ladder at an exclusive, high-powered PR firm in Southern California whose clients are movie stars and famous athletes. She is asked to take on her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, distinguished statesman from Southern California, who also happens to be the father of Anabelle, Maggie’s best friend in high school. Senator Paxton’s young female aide has been found murdered, and it is up to Maggie to run damage control and prevent the scandal from growing.
Thrown back into the Paxtons’ glamorous world, Maggie is unexpectedly flooded with memories from the stormy years in high school, when her friendship with Anabelle was dramatically severed after a tragedy that neither of them has been able to forget. As Maggie gets further embroiled in the lives of the Paxtons, she realizes that the ties of her old friendship are stronger than she thinks.
Riveting and suspenseful, Damage Control examines our craving for celebrity and spectacle and how far the bonds of friendship can stretch before they break forever.
Denise Hamilton is a writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, and the New York Times and is the author of five acclaimed Eve Diamond crime novels, Prisoner of Memory, Savage Garden, Last Lullaby, Sugar Skull, and The Jasmine Trade, all of which have been Los Angeles Times bestsellers. She is also the editor of and a contributor to the short story anthology Los Angeles Noir, winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Mystery of 2007. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children.
Vanessa Hart (1959–2014) narrated dozens of award-winning audiobooks in her career. She was a finalist for the 2009 Voicey Award for Best Female Voice and was a finalist in the 2008 Audie Awards.
Reviews
“Denise Hamilton scores her largest and greatest triumph: Damage Control is a great mystery, and, much more rarely, a superb psychological thriller. Kudos to this brilliant talent.”
“Hamilton does a beautiful job of describing LA neighborhoods and unraveling its secrets.”
“You can’t beat LA-based noir for moodiness, and no one writes it better than Denise Hamilton.”
“Excellent…The suspenseful denouement should please Hamilton fans.”
“Denise Hamilton dives deeper into the menace behind the glamour of Southern California in this riveting stand-alone thriller…In a novel that marries celebrity culture, surf noir, and the bonds of friendship, Hamilton is at the top of her game.”
“This is such a superb book! I stayed glued to the pages from the first to the last. Hamilton is a veritable poet of Los Angeles, capturing its spirit and images with clear eyes and love. She is also able to step into the world of teens and follow them into maturity as few writers of adult fiction can achieve. Her prose is gorgeous, funny, wry, and realistic.”
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