The Makeover Murders — Jennifer Rowe

THIS LUXURIOUS SPA PROMISES A COMPLETE NEW YOU--BUT THE PRICE MAY BE MURDER

Margot Bell's beauty spa was a glamorous retreat where women were transformed--for a price. Verity Birdwood had come on assignment as a TV researcher, none too thrilled with the notion of Margot's artistic hairdresser taking a scissors to her. But worse events are in the offing: someone performs a lasting transformation on the imperious spa owner, leaving Margot in the beauty therapy room with a pair of scissors in her neck.

Before the murder, Margot and her staff received threatening letters and the disquieting news that a former mental patient--and killer--was among the spa's guests, registered under an assumed name. From Margot's silent, silenced partner, to the handsome secretary shed loved and jilted, to the homely guest who wanted more from Margot than a miraculous new look, Birdie has no shortage of suspects. She's also got plenty of opportunities to observe them because a raging rainstorm traps everyone at the spa. But what she doesn't have is time. A murderer is loose in Deepdene spa and is about to kill again....