With the cunning of Gone
Girl’s Amy Dunne, and as
dangerous as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s
Lisbeth Salander, the femme fatale of this Talented Mr.
Ripley–esque psychological thriller is sexy, smart, and
very, very bad in all the best ways.
By day,
Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a
prestigious London art house.
By night, she’s a
hostess at one of the capital’s notorious
champagne bars, although her work there pales against her
activities on nights off.
TO GET WHAT SHE
WANTS
Desperate to make something of herself,
Judith knows she has
to play the game. She’s transformed her accent and taught
herself about wine and the correct use of a dessert fork,
not to mention the art of discretion.
She’s learned
to be a good girl. But when Judith is fired
for uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art
world—and her honest efforts at a better life are
destroyed—she turns to a long-neglected friend. A friend who
kept her chin up and back straight through every slight:
Rage.
SHE WILL CROSS EVERY LINE
Feeling
reckless, she accompanies one of the champagne bar’s
biggest clients to the French Riviera, only to find herself
alone again after a fatal accident. Tired of striving and
the slow crawl to the top, Judith has a realization: If you
need to turn yourself into someone else, loneliness is a
good place to start. And she’s been lonely a long
time.
Maestra is a glamorous, ferocious
thriller and the
beginning of a razor-sharp trilogy that introduces the
darkly irresistible Judith Rashleigh, a femme fatale for the
ages whose vulnerability and ruthlessness will keep you
guessing until the last page.