Wraith by Lee Tulloch

1999

Berenger is The Wraith, a nineteen-year-old supermodel famous for her terrifying, half- crazed stare. She becomes even more famous the morning her plain and prim personal assistant, Nile Kirk, finds her body in their Manhattan apartment.

The police can't unravel the mystery, but from her prison cell Nile recounts Berenger's meteoric rise and scandalous marriage to the distinguished eighty-two-year-old composer Aaron Karsner. And she reveals her own secret of passion for Addam, Berenger's blue-eyed ex, a rock star who also happens to be Aaron's grandson.

An ordinary girl thrown into an unpredictable world of glamorous, skinny, gum- chewing fashion brats, Nile has to learn new rules for survival as she grapples with questions about sexual identity, loyalty, beauty, infidelity and love.

And that's before she learns you can't ever argue with a ghost.

Wraith is the long-awaited new novel by the acclaimed author of Fabulous Nobodies. A dazzlingly plotted psychological thriller and heartbreaking love story, Wraith mixes horror and comedy in a world of high fashion and low motive.