The Internet Book Database of Fiction

#	Date	Publisher	Binding	Cover
1	1993-04-00	Dutton

Blurb:: SOME GIRLS ARE JUST DYING??? TO BE BEAUTIFUL

Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls???whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys??????to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes???but at what cost?

Turns out there???s a high price to pay to look one???s best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run ???accident??? that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly???and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface???.