TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,James AU - Ellis,David TI - Guilty wives: a novel SN - 031609756X (hardback) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Co. KW - Americans KW - Monaco KW - Fiction KW - False imprisonment KW - Female friendship KW - Monte-Carlo (Monaco) KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Includes an excerpt from the Women's Murder Club novel 11th hour N2 - "No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and more, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. Guilty wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create"-- Dust jacket ER -