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by Astrid Dahl
A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth.
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah's third most popular show:
"I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I always bring my A game." —Renee Ricci
"When life gives me lemons, I make citron presse´ on my yacht in Saint-Tropez." —Birdie St. Clair
"I don't bite, but I do scratch, and these talons are 100 percent Italian." —Carmela Fontana
When Hope Bennett marries Carmela's brother Leo she not only becomes a Fontana, but a Garden State Goddess—and not everyone is happy.
Secrets will be revealed, decades-long rivalries will surface, and a sudden murder will lead to a reality reckoning no one is prepared for, least of all the show's producer Eden who must race to catch a killer and save the most dramatic season of all time.
"Dahl, like her protagonist, proves to be an adept ringleader of this comedic circus, but readers will wish her players were slightly less stereotypical—for a novel so sympathetic to sapphic romance, for example, the lone gay male character is a surprisingly flat camp cartoon. Still, mystery fans with a taste for the absurd will have a frothy good time." —Publishers Weekly
"The over-the-top characters are a perfect representation of the wildly popular Real Housewives franchise. Some moments are genuinely shocking; readers will be surprised by the twists and turns throughout. Dahl's debut entertains from the first page." —Booklist
"Secrets, gallows humor, campy reality TV stars, and an Instagram gossip account called 'Shady Di'—Astrid Dahl's? The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey?is the kind of book I wanted to live inside. LOLing and gasping my way through, I nearly wished I'd written it myself!" —Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain
"Astrid Dahl's The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey is just as deliciously soapy as the shows that inspired it. This book is catty, sexy, and may be fatally addictive." —Zan Romanoff, author of Look and Grace & the Fever
"Like the best, most addictive reality TV, The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey is about people behaving badly—lying, cheating, back-stabbing and worse. I started reading for all the juicy drama but it was the murder mystery that had me racing through pages at the end." —Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines
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Astrid Dahl is an author, fangirl, and law school dropout. She lives in Los Angeles, where she plans to die.
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