TY - BOOK AU - Escobar,Melba AU - Bryer,Elizabeth TI - House of Beauty SN - 9780008264246 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - 4th Estate KW - Beauty operators KW - Fiction KW - Teenagers KW - Crimes against KW - Murder KW - Misogyny KW - Social classes KW - Colombia KW - Bogotá (Colombia) KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Originally published in Colombia by Editorial Planeta Colombiana A.A. in 2015 N2 - House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogota's exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give the perfect massage. Her clients confide in her, and she knows all about them. Their breast implants, their weekends in Miami, their divorces and affairs. Karen has problems of her own. She's in trouble, and she needs money. More money than she can make at House of Beauty. Most serious of all: a teenage girl has been found dead, and Karen was one of the last people to see her alive. So the girl's mother is desperate to talk to her ER -