Up and Down: Murder in Manhattan

Valerie Vane is Manhattan's It girl: a star reporter for a quality newspaper, engaged to rich kid Jeremiah and adored by everyone who matters. But when she attacks Jeremiah's mistress at an uber-hip party downtown, everything turns against her. Val loses her house, her money, her fiancé and even her job. From now on, she works in the dull Obituaries department. But it is there that she discovers a murder in the art world that takes her back to her old world: the New York upper class. Val is determined to solve this mystery, risking her own life. Up & Down is an exciting glamour novel with a witty heroine who stops at nothing. Nina Siegal has created a great chick noir.