Cover Story

 By: Susan Rigetti

Location: FIC RIG

Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery

"I picked this up on a whim and it unexpectedly became a new favourite. Just go read it, you won't regret it" Steph

Netflix’s Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout meets  Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist’s scam. A Most Anticipated Book by  Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade ,  New York Post , Shondaland, E!,  Fortune , PopSugar, and more! “It’s exciting, it’s surprising, it’s satisfying, it’s darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing.”—Linda Holmes for Today.com After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat’s suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora’s life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat’s glamorous lifestyle, Cat’s perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world. A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.

𝑭𝒖𝒏! 𝑭𝒖𝒏! 𝑭𝒖𝒏! 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 by debut author Susan Rigetti should be in everyone’s beach bag this spring and summer. It’s one of those books that is pure, unadulterated fun! The story centers around a world class grifter, Cat Wolff, and Lora Ricci, a 24-year old intern working for Elle magazine. Cat quickly has Lora under her spell and eager to do almost anything asked of her. Now, if you’re thinking this sounds a little like 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢 by Rachel DeLoache Williams or the hit @netflix show 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢, you’re absolutely right. There is that premise, but trust me when I say 𝘊𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 ends up going in entirely different directions.⁣
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That’s all I can tell you about the story because it’s best to go in knowing as little as possible. I just want to leave you with two things. First, the entire book is written in diary entries, emails, text messages, etc., making it a very fast read and adding to the fun of the book. Second, I 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 saw the ending coming. I should have, but I didn’t.