About This Book
Seventeen-year-old Lucy is a talented grifter, having been taught by the best-her con artist mother, Annie. After reading an obit in The Times-Picayune regarding the death of Judith Randolph in a car accident, Lucy and her roommate, Jake, investigate the New Orleans Randolph family-they're filthy rich, and Judith died childless. Armed with a phony birth certificate, IDs, and a photo of Judith from her finishing school yearbook, Lucy steps off the Greyhound in New Orleans as Lydia Randolph, Judith's orphaned daughter. Having found the perfect, unsuspecting shill, Lydia is graciously welcomed into the family and offered lucrative opportunities. Brian, a detective with NOPD, sets Lydia straight-the "car accident" was actually an accident in the car, and it wasn't an accident-Judith had been shot in the head. Lydia becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her mother, and Lucy can't confess to being an imposter, as it only adds to her motives for killing Judith-Lucy couldn't masquerade as Judith's abandoned daughter if Judith were alive. A search of Lydia's hotel suite results in the discovery of jeans with blood spatter matching Judith's DNA. After Lydia is charged with murdering her mother and incarcerated, Brian, Annie, and Jake set out to find Judith's murderer before Lucy's next stop-death row.
