Make-Up For Murder PG25 Towles returns to one of

Towles returns to one of the characters at the heart of his debut novel Rules of Civility: the indomitable Evelyn Ross

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good-natured affirmation of humanity

It's the difference between surviving and living

a step at a time

Make-Up For Murder PG25 Towles returns to one ofAs a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she's a TV star, the glamorously renamed Rianne May. When she's invited to be guest of honour at Maryhill College's annual reunion, she has a chance to dazzle her old tormentors the way she does her adoring television audience. But as she's holding court at the reunion tea party, old grudges and new jealousies swirl around her and suddenly one of her tablemates drops dead,