Biographie de l'auteur Jane Stanton Hitchcock has written three previous novels, the best-selling Social Crimes, The Witches' Hammer, and Trick of the Eye, which was nominated for both the Edgar Allen Poe Award and the Hammett Prize as the Best First Novel of the Year. She lives in New York and Washington, D.C. Présentation de l'éditeur When her husband dies, New York socialite Jo Slater is shocked to learn that he left his sizable estate to a mysterious French countess. Obsessed with recovering her place as queen of New York, Jo concocts an audacious scheme of revenge. Can she pull it off