The Divide: A novel

ISBN: 0593685679

Author: Richter, Morgan

Condition: New

Double Indemnity meets The Big Lebowski in this smart and compelling mystery.When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. She was working with the young auteur Serge Grumet and was on her way to becoming the next indie darling. But then the movie tanked, and Jenny never caught a second break. Now, two decades later, after floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, shes barely keeping afloat running a low-level grift as a psychic life coach.But when news surfaces that Serge has been murdered, Jennys life is turned upside down. Unbeknownst to Jenny, Serges ex-wife, painter Gena Santos, looks alarmingly similar to Jenny. So much so that when Gena goes missing, the cops think Jenny is Gena.Jenny finds herself pulled into Genas world and manages to somehow leverage both her resemblance to Gena and her ersatz psychic abilities to infiltrate the affluent yet unstable inner circle of friends, which include a Korean pop idol-turned-social media star and an Oscar-winning actress-turned-wellness guru. Soon Jennys search to find Gena unearths dark secrets about her own past while putting her squarely in the sights of a killer.