{"product_id":"hot-girl-murder-club","title":"Hot Girl Murder Club","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ashley Winstead delivers another razor-smart, wildly entertaining thriller with \u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e--a book that's as bold and biting as its title and as unputdownable as her best work. Winstead is a master of smart, compulsive suspense.\"\u003cb\u003e --Jeneva Rose, #1\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Edgy and tense, \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the dark side of fame and fortune. A twisty tale of sisterhood and murder where everyone has a motive and no one is safe. This is Ashley Winstead at her best!\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ashley Elston, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e First Lie Wins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003ePrepare to meet your next summer binge read: Ashley Winstead's \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e is literally one of the most addictive, juiciest thrillers I've ever read! I couldn't get enough of Winstead's evocative backdrop of glittering yet menacing Hollywood and her sharply-drawn, unforgettable protagonist Scout with her collection of stiletto-clad hot girls consumed with ambition. NOBODY does explosive female relationships and power dynamics quite like Winstead and I'm calling it now: \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e will be the book of summer!\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMay Cobb, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hunting Wives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club \u003c\/i\u003eis the must-read thriller of the year. Ashley Winstead delivers a glittery, pulse-pounding, and at times, heartbreaking, story about sisterhood and justice and the price of revenge. Vengeance never looked so hot.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlex Finlay, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParents Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If scrolling through the news makes you want to throw your phone across the room, this book is the cathartic fantasy you've been waiting for. \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e looks, at first glance, like a straight-up revenge story--women finally getting delicious payback from the men who hurt them. But Ashley Winstead is doing something sharper here, using rage, wit, and jaw-dropping twists to capture the exhaustion of living in this moment. Blisteringly fun and bracingly astute, \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e is escapism with a bite.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--S\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003etephanie Wrobel, internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hitchcock Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e features Ashley Winstead at her absolute finest, firing on all her signature thriller cylinders and wielding the pen like a proper Raymond Chandler in the time of the Kardashians. With her foot firmly on the gas from beginning to end, top down in Tinseltown, readers will be left gasping at the seemingly endless twists and turns, like a night ride down Mulholland after the afterparty. As glamorous as it is gritty, Winstead's latest is a white-hot barnburner of a novel so ferociously feminist, you'll finish the last page ready to light the match yourself!\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Rachel Koller Croft\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A dark exploration of girl power in glittering Hollywood from seeking justice at any cost to how violence can bring us to our knees. Equal parts page-turning thriller and fascinating character study with incredible investigative threads Ashley Winstead pulls so expertly that readers will not be able to put this book down or guess what happens next.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Vanessa Lillie, author of \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Damn, this book is good.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Julie Clark, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghostwriter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wild, brutal and incendiary, this book is a Molotov cocktail big enough to catch readers' hearts in its flames.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --John Fram, critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Lands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Knock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is \n\u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e Ashley Winstead thriller you've been waiting for--dark, atmospheric, timely, and tense...An ode to the families we're born into--and the ones we build from the ashes, \n\u003ci\u003eHot Girl Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e is a pulse-pounding investigation into stardom, sisterhood, and the wildfire of female rage.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLauren Nossett, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resemblance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ingenious...Winstead fashions a wickedly clever novel that not only delivers all the jaw-dropping twists readers crave but also offers up a thoughtful exploration of the costs that can come from taking justice into one's own hands. Written with a razor-sharp sense of humor and graced with a memorable cast of relatably messy characters, this sleekly plotted novel of suspense is simply superb.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A savage #MeToo revenge fantasy... genuinely satisfying\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ashley Winstead is a skilled practitioner of the thriller arts, excelling in the suspense world for her captivating plots, intriguing characterization, and off-the-wall twists. If Winstead writes it, then I'm reading it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eCrime Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tASHLEY WINSTEAD is the national bestselling author of many beloved thrillers, including \n\u003ci\u003e This Book Will Bury Me\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Last Housewife\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eIn My Dreams I Hold a Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eMidnight Is the Darkest Hour\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to being an acclaimed thriller writer, Ashley is also the author of two romantic comedies, \n\u003ci\u003eFool Me Once \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Boyfriend Candidate\u003c\/i\u003e, with more on the way. Her novels have been optioned for television; chosen as Book of the Month, Best of Amazon, LibraryReads, Indie Next, Apple Books, and Lone Star picks; and received attention from major outlets, from \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e to \n\u003ci\u003e The Washington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INDIE NEXT PICK - A LIBRARY READS SELECTION - Named a Most Anticipated Book of Summer by Goodreads - Newsday - The Everygirl - Zibby Owens - SheReads - Scary Mommy - CrimeReads\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Prepare to meet your next summer binge read.\" --May Cobb, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hunting Wives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice...by any means necessary.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWhat's a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice for murder?\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTen years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost the only thing that mattered: her sister, Georgia. Ever since Georgia's mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout's done her best to honor her memory, clawing her way through the industry and collecting a network of climbers along the way, fellow hot girls in stilettos with cutthroat ambition, a new Hollywood order. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when a slew of targeted murders makes headlines across L.A., all pointing to Scout as the killer, she turns overnight from a mid-tier pop star into the world's most famous (alleged) murderer. Now everything she's worked to build--including the justice she wants for Georgia--will fall apart unless Scout can prove she's not guilty. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, the young and unusual detective assigned to her case, herself no stranger to tragedy, begins to unearth secrets not even Scout knows, let alone her millions of new fans. Particularly about the ways Georgia's death connects to an even older pattern of crimes long hushed over in Hollywood--an old reign of terror that, if brought to light, could be the fuel that ignites a reckoning the world over. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/13\/2026 (EAN 9781250401212, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/22\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9781250401212, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/15\/2026 (EAN 9781250401212, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eWinstead, Ashley\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tASHLEY WINSTEAD is the national bestselling author of many beloved thrillers, including \n\u003ci\u003e This Book Will Bury Me\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Last Housewife\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eIn My Dreams I Hold a Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eMidnight Is the Darkest Hour\u003c\/i\u003e. 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