The Dinner Club
by Saskia Noort

Cover Design: Killian Strong

Crime Paperback Original

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UK: Jan 2007 / US: Apr 2007

A subversive concoction of greed, lust, and violence set in genteel suburbia.

When Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the “dinner club”, a group of five women who meet regularly and whose husbands do business together, rally around to support Babette, his grieving widow. But events soon spiral out of control. Within weeks a member of the club falls from the balcony of a hotel and dies. Something is poisoning their smug world of flashy 4x4s, coffee mornings and wine-filled evenings and bringing death in its wake. This is a high-spirited, sexy and ingeniously plotted tale about people desperate to hang on to the trappings of success--at any cost.

Imagine Desperate Housewives scripted by Patricia Highsmith. That’s The Dinner Club.

Author Information
Saskia Noort is a freelance journalist and writes features for, among others, the Dutch editions of Marie Claire and Playboy. Her first thriller, Back to the Coast was published to great acclaim...

The Translator
Paul Vincent is a well known translator from the Dutch. His work includes novels by Harry Mulisch and Willem Elsschot for Penguin, Margriet de Moor for MacMillan as well as Frank Martinus Arion for Faber & Faber.

Praise for The Dinner Club
''Saskia Noort is a mystery writer of the heart as much as of the mind, a balance that marks her work with a flesh-and-blood humanity.'' Andrew Pyper, author of 'The Wildfire Season'

'A tangled web of deceit, adultery and financial shenanigans.' The Times

Internet links
Noort-Author website
www.saskianoort.nl/

Noort-Sultry Saskia Portrait
www.mariececilethijs.com/ frame.php?id=1097

Noort-Dinner Club Dutch edition
www.literairethrillers.nl/?id=320