Bluff — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A woman with a gun. A man with a secret. And a cunning, fatal bluff.... New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock deals a twisty tale of murder in Manhattan.

On a crisp October day, faded socialite Maud Warner walks into Manhattan's legendary Four Seasons restaurant and guns down billionaire statesman and Wall Street titan Sun Sunderland. The spectacular crime is all anyone can talk about, not only because it was so brazen but because no one believes Maud meant to shoot Sunderland. People are convinced her real target was Sunderland's lunching companion, Burt Sklar, the “accountant to the stars” she has loathed and pursued for years, claiming he swindled her family out of a fortune and worse.

Maud goes on the run, knowing her plan has seriously misfired. Sklar goes on the offensive, telling everyone how crazy his old nemesis “Mad Maud” is. But Sunderland's death cracks open a dark secret that Sklar has hidden from the world for years -- a secret involving betrayal and murder.

What Sklar doesn't know is that Maud has become a crafty poker player who knows that when the cards don't go your way, you don't give up. Helped by her poker buddies, she goes underground and eventually learns the whole terrible truth about what Sklar did to her family and others. In a final showdown, Maud finds an ace up her sleeve, bent on revenge with the bluff of her life.