The Rich and the Dead

Miami Beach’s social elite populate Spector’s exciting debut, a crime novel involving time travel. On New Year’s Day 2015, 12 rich and powerful philanthropists, members of the secretive Janus Society, are shot, execution style, on Florida’s Star Island. Hotshot police detective Lila Day takes on the shocking case, but her failure to bring the Star Island killer to justice destroys her career. When reclusive billionaire Teddy Hawkins gives Lila the chance, three years later, to go back in time to solve the case, she has nothing to lose. The only caveat is that Lila must not try to stop the murders, she can only attempt to determine the killer’s identity. Posing as ultra-wealthy socialite Camilla Dayton, Lila mingles with the future victims in the fall of 2014 to determine how and why they were targeted. In a race against time and her own growing feelings for some of the doomed Janus Society members, Lila finds lust, jealousy, greed—and much more—in this well-crafted thriller. (Mar.)