The Beautiful and the Wicked: A Lila Day Novel

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In exclusive Star Island, Miami, blood isnt always thicker than water . . . The second book in a thrilling time traveling mystery series featuring a former Miami PD who solves murders before they happenby going back in time.

The night of his fiftieth birthday, software billionaire Jack Warren went missing hundreds of miles out to sea, his blood spattered aboard his yacht, his body gone. His mistress, Ava Day, was charged with his murderbut she had already vanished without a trace.

Now, ten years later, detective Lila Day still refuses to believe that her sister is a cold-blooded killer. To clear Avas name and solve this long-cold case, Lila asks her friend Teddy Hawkins to do what he has done beforesend her back to time, to solve the crime before it takes place.

And so she goes back to 2008, with only a month to prove her sisters innocence and bring Warrens real killer to justice. But as she dives ever deeper into the world of high-speed yachting and corporate intrigue, and the night of Warrens birthday draws ever closer, the truth becomes murkier than ever. And then Lila discovers information that shocks her deeplya terrible truth that changes everything she thought she knew about her sister, and herself.

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"Time travel, glitz, and a colorful cast of characters collide in what is surely the most inventive whodunit of the year!" -- New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub "Exciting debut...well-crafted thriller." -- Publishers Weekly "The combination of mystery, evil, glamor, and light science fiction makes for an engrossing series debut." -- Booklist

Author Bio

Liv Spector was raised on Cape Cod and currently lives in Canada. She has worked as an oyster shucker, dancer, farmhand, journalist, and teacher. A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, she received her MFA from Brooklyn College.