If Looks Could Kill
Chapter One
Cat Jones was the kind of woman who not only got everything in the world that
she wanted-in her case a fabulous job as editor in chief of one of the biggest
women's magazines, a gorgeous town house in Manhattan, and a hot-looking husband
with a big career of his own-but over the years also managed to get plenty of
what other women wanted: like their fabulous jobs and their
hot-looking husbands. It was hard not to hate her. So when her perfect world
began to unravel, I might have been tempted to turn my face into my pillow at
night and go, "Hee hee hee." But I didn't. I took no pleasure in her misery, as
I'm sure plenty of other people did, and instead I jetted to her rescue. Why?
Because she helped pay my bills, because she was my friend in a weird sort of
way, and most of all because as a writer of true crime articles I've always been
sucked in by stories that start with a corpse and lead to crushing heartache.
There's no way I could forget the moment when all the Sturm und Drang began. It
was just after eight on a Sunday morning, a Sunday in early May. I was lying
under the covers of my queen-size bed in a ... read full excerpt from If Looks Could Kill ebook
