14 November 2005.
ISBN 0-75286-592-7 (HB)
When investigative reporter
Annie Anderson decides to become fashion editor at Handbag magazine, she finds
herself in a cold and snowy New York for the fashion shows. Her motives for
changing jobs are rather murky if not contradictory but she is so swiftly
engulfed in the mayhem of the fashion world that there is little time to
question this.
Everything moves very fast as Annie gains the confidence of the brilliant new
fashion designer, Mark Mailer, in pursuit of an investigative article. Unfortunately, he is murdered in her presence
in a robbery gone wrong. Annie becomes
more and more embroiled in questions about his death, his drug addict model
girlfriend, the financing of his design business and various dubious business
practices.
As Annie gets deeper into the fashion world all the usual problems of
such a heroine arise for her - she has a dragon of a boss, she can’t achieve
the degree of chic needed or the anorexic outline and she has unresolved
personal problems from her past. She seems continually harried and is always
rushing around. I started to feel breathless and to wonder if the ratty black
coat she wears constantly in New York and London in appalling weather couldn’t
stand up on its own ! This is a thriller with excellent inside knowledge of the
fashion industry. This is Sam Baker’s
first novel and, since she is the editor of Cosmopolitan, the inside picture of
fashion is masterly.
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Reviewer: Jennifer S. Palmer
Sam Baker was born in Hampshire, She studied politics at Birmingham University. Sam has edited some of the UK's biggest magazines. After successfully re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of Company. She was also editor of Cosmopolitan in the UK and is now editor-in-chief of Red. She lives between Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her husband and grown-up stepson.
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