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Murder Can Ruin Your Looks

by Selma Eichler

Desiree Shapiro, New York's full-figured P.I., is dead set against taking another murder case. But her old friend Peter Winters just needs Desiree to figure out who got killed. His fiancee, Mary Ann, and her identical twin, Meredith, were brutally shot in their posh condo. One sister lies in the morgue. The other is in a coma. Nobody knows which of the once-beautiful blondes survived. So Desiree agrees to snoop around Meredith's fellow actors at a very offbeat, Off-Off-Broadway theater and cannily question Mary Ann's friends and sleazy ex-lover, in locales from Uptown to Jersey. And as the chilling picture emerges, lies, greed, and betrayal prove that looks are deceiving and increasingly dangerous--especially for New York's funniest, chubbiest gumshoe.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?