Full name: Damage Control: A Novel

Author: Denise Hamilton Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Thriller Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780743296748 9781451686326 0743296745

Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She does her best to scramble up the ladder at an exclusive, high-powered PR firm in Southern California, whose clients are movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie is being asked to take on her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, distinguished statesman from Southern California, who also happens to be the father of Anabelle, Maggie's former high school best friend. Senator Paxton's young, female aide has been found murdered, and it is up to Maggie to run damage control and prevent a scandal. Thrown back into the Paxtons' glamorous world, Maggie is unexpectedly flooded with memories from the stormy years in high school when her friendship with Anabelle was dramatically severed after a tragedy that neither of them has been able to forget. As Maggie gets further embroiled in the lives of the Paxtons, she realizes that the ties of her old friendship are stronger than she thinks. Similar books: Valley of Bones by Michael Gruber The Betrayed by David Hosp Judas Child by Carol O'Connell The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz The Abbey by Chris Culver The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders The Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman Hope Road by John Barlow Dead Aim by Thomas Perry Private by James Patterson Play Dead by Harlan Coben Dead Watch by John Sandford The Case of Lucy Bending by Lawrence Sanders Heartstone by Phillip Margolin NYPD Red by James Patterson The Whistler by John Grisham Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham Before The Fall by Noah Hawley Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas