Introducing the writer Stephen King trumpets as "the
next suspense superstar"
Recently Stephen
King devoted an entire Entertainment Weekly
column to Meg Gardiner, proclaiming her "as good as
Michael Connelly and far better than Janet
Evanovich." How is it possible, he wondered, that this
Californian was published only in Britain?
Starting now, suspense fans on this side of the pond can
get their fix right here:
Dutton is proud to introduce Gardiner's brand-new series
heroine, Jo Beckett, in The Dirty Secrets Club.
An ongoing string of high-profile and very public
murder-suicides has San Francisco even more rattled than a
string of recent earthquakes: A flamboyant fashion designer
burns to death, clutching the body of his murdered lover. A
superstar 49er jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. And most
shocking of all, a U.S. attorney launches her BMW off a
highway overpass, killing herself and three others.
Enter forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett, hired by the SFPD
to cut open not the victim's body but the victim's life.
Jo's job is to complete the psychological autopsy, shedding
light on the circumstances of any equivocal death. Soon she
makes a shocking discovery: All the suicides belonged to
something called the Dirty Secrets Club, a group of A-
listers with nothing but money and plenty to hide. As the
deaths continue, Jo delves into the disturbing motives
behind this shadowy group — until she receives a letter
containing a dark secret Jo thought she'd left deep in her
past, and ending with the most chilling words of
all: "Welcome to the Dirty Secrets Club."
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