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It's a cut-throat world of allure and deception that Vivian and Nick must traverse in order to uncover the killer who willl stop at nothing to add them to their gallery of murders. When Nick is sent to protect Vivian, together they discover that the Dagger Killer has ties to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood royalty and high society. After refusing to marry the man her wealthy parents favored, fiercely independent Vivian Brazier moved from San Francisco to Adelina Beach to pursue her career as an art photographer.

His talent, along with his dark past, makes him a recluse, but a brilliant investigator. CLOSE UP by Amanda Quick RELEASE DATE: Quick returns to 1930s California ( Tightrope, 2019, etc.) with another sexy but derivative thriller. Nick Sundridge has always been able to 'see' things that others don't. Details that put Vivian right at the top of the killer's target list. Details that only a photographer would have noticed. When she's called to take photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the 'Dagger Killer', Vivian notices eerie similarities to previous crime scenes. Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include headshots for aspiring celebrities or nightly calls to take snaps of grisly murders.

Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.

Of course, his ideas for helping her involve using her as the bait for a killer, but Prudence feels oddly safe with Jack protecting her. So no one is more shocked than Prudence when Jack says he’ll help her. And Jack Wingate does seem to be someone intimately familiar with violence, if going by his scarred face and grim expression. Wingate believes her to be a fraud at best, and at worst: a murderer. In fact, Prudence is convinced that the mysterious Mr. It doesn’t seem likely that rumored crime boss Luther Pell or his associate, Jack Wingate, believe her seemingly outrageous claims of being a target of a ruthless vendetta. Prudence knows who is responsible, but will anyone believe her? With the press outside the hotel, waiting with their cameras and police sirens in the distance, it’s obvious she’s being framed for the man’s murder.

Letting her guard down means being kidnapped and drugged and waking up in a bloodstained wedding dress in the honeymoon suite next to a dead man. But Prudence, a master at reinvention, finds a new job and home as far away as possible and is finally able to relax-which turns out to be a big mistake.

A psychic desperate to escape her destiny-and a killer-finds her future in the coastal town of Burning Cove in New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick’s latest novel.īeing Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn’t Prudence Ryland’s ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work-until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her.