July 27, 2020
In bestseller Laurie’s enjoyable sequel to 2019’s Coached to Death, Cat Cooper, who owns a life-coaching business, and her friend Gilley Gillespie, who’s helping her with a marketing campaign, are determined to make Cat the premier life coach in East Hampton, Long Island, before the summer season begins. First, though, they have to survive the offseason with its empty beaches and lack of clients. Gilley is missing his fashion photographer husband, who’s away on a shoot for a month; Cat’s one potential client, Willem Entwistle, believes he’s cursed; and the two men in Cat’s life, Maks Grinkov, a businessman with Chechen mafia connections, and Det. Steve Shepherd, of the East Hampton PD, are vying for her attention. The stakes rise when the police finger Maks as the perpetrator of multiple murders. Cat and Gilley’s efforts to prove Maks’s innocence take some unexpected and thrilling turns. Sebastian, Cat’s charming AI butler, lends support. Fans of superior cozies will be well satisfied. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret.