One of Us Is Dead
"Scheming mean girls, sex and scandal, secrets and lies...what's not to love?"--Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Last Girl Ghosted
The Real Housewives meets murder in this deliciously savage and wildly entertaining thriller from Jeneva Rose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage, You Shouldn't Have Come Here, and Home Is Where the Bodies Are.
Buckhead isn't a place you live, it's a place you survive. And that applies even to the wealthy housewives that have it all. Fancy cars, designer clothes, and daily salon appointments aren't nearly enough to keep them fulfilled and happy. Because in this town, privilege and opulence go hand in hand with betrayal and revenge.
Jenny, the owner of Glow, an exclusive membership-only beauty salon, knows that better than anyone, because she knows everything about these housewives--down to each individual strand of hair. Despite the toxicity, Jenny keeps her focus on running her business, and keeping the peace. However, peace proves to be impossible when one of her clients is murdered. Now, it's up to Jenny and her knowledge of neighborhood secrets and gossip to help the police solve the case. It won't be easy though, because while Buckhead may be all about appearances, nothing is as it seems.
Never have mean girls been meaner, nor murder been so much fun than in this "sublimely bitchy" (Kirkus Reviews) and scandalous suspense novel from Jeneva Rose, the "queen of twists" (Colleen Hoover).
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Readers say *One of Us Is Dead* is a fast-paced, glossy thriller packed with drama, dark humor, and cutthroat ambition in a wealthy world. Many praise...
Very REAL Housewives meets Desperate Housewives. The twist was one I expected in order to receive a “happy ending”, but some storylines throughout seemed kind of passed over. I needed more background. I feel that writing it in 5 different perspectives caused there to be a lot of missed interactions between some other characters, but it was was quick read and made me glad I wasn’t living in Buckhead with these women lol. Very entertaining.
Q: What is a story without a protagonist?
A: A series of recounted events.
Q: What is the only genre of story benefits the most from having no protagonists?
A: A murder/mystery. Too bad One of Us Is Dead isn't a murder mystery. Mysteries require foreshadowing, plot devices, intrigues, puzzling behavior, rewarding readers for attention to details, and above all -- audience participation (usually easily inserted into the story by the presence of a body and a mystery of whodunnit). When the body isn't revealed until the end, there is no intrigue that lasts longer than the end of the chapter (the best intrigue in the book is who orchestrated the break-in to the salon), and there is no audience participation in the solving of the mystery... you're left with recounting a series of events of terribly wicked and unsympathetic characters. It's bad.
I am not certain... who this book is for? Fans of Real Housewives of X? Who wants to digest bad reality television in the long format of a novel? Then there are the host of usual millennial story contrivances... but I was willing to overlook those because of the unusual premise: the body (victim) is not revealed until the end.
Can this unusual murdery-mystery premise be done and done well? Yes, I think so. But not by Jeneva Rose.