Elsa Klensch, former host of CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch," has an insider's knowledge of the fashion industry's most flamboyant personalities coupled with an outsider's sharp-eyed objectivity.

In Live at 10, Dead at 10:15, Klensch brilliantly evokes the worlds of fashion and design through the eyes of Sonya Iverson, ambitious Midwesterner striving to succeed in New York City. As a producer for the network newsmagazine "The Donna Fuller Show," Sonya is frustrated at always having to work on "fluff"-but she never expected her big break to come in the middle of the annual American Fashion Awards dinner.

Sonya steps into the elegant powder room of New York City's 42nd Street Library to discover a just-out-of-rehab supermodel clutching what appears to be a bloody dagger and standing over the body of the glamorous wife of a fashion industry mogul. Sonya's first call is to the newsroom; the police come second.

The dead woman, Harriett Franklin, was widely admired for her charitable work but nearly universally disliked, Sonya discovers as she interviews clothing designers, models, fashion magazine editors, and industry bigwigs. Harriett was scheming and manipulative, determined to have her way in everything from naming the new perfume being developed by the House of Franklin to keeping her Down Syndrome son in a treatment facility far from the spotlight.

Suspects abound. Was the killer the supermodel, whose comeback Harriett was threatening to derail? The internationally-renowned designer recently fired at Harriett's bidding? The fashion magazine editor Harriett first bribed and then blackmailed? Or even Harriett's long-suffering husband, who may have finally had all he could take of his shrewish wife?

Eager to break this career-making story, Sonya quickly learns many dark secrets about the seamy underside of the fashion industry. Sonya's next interview might be her last . . . .

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Praise for this book

“Only Elsa could fashion such a lively murderous tale.” —Calvin Klein

“Elsa will have as long and successful career as a writer as she did as a pioneering fashion journalist.” —Oscar de la Renta

“A hot mystery. Kick back in your stilettos to find out who knocked off [the] mogul's wife.” —US Weekly

“No one communicates with more style or more authority than Elsa Klensch. She's the ultimate insider.” —Donna Karan

“If Mickey Spillane dealt in dress patterns and couture instead of lead and vengeance, this is the kind of book he'd write.” —New York Post

“A tale of deadly intrigue at one of America's top design houses. Fast-paced and funny-a debut with style.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A well-written suspense [novel] that has a captivating conclusion.” —Romantic Times Bookclub




About the AuthorELSA KLENSCH, author of the New York Times bestseller, Style with Elsa Klensch, was host of the CNN program of the same name. Her series of mysteries starring television fashion journalist Sonia Iverson includes Take Two, Shooting Script, and Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15. She maintains homes in New York City, London, and Australia.
Title: Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15 : A Sonya Iverson Novel
Author(s): Elsa Klensch
Volume: 1
ISBN: 9781429913003
Copyright 2007
Release Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
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