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Damage Control Hardcover – 6 September 2011

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Critically acclaimed author Denise Hamilton weaves an engrossing story of teenage friendship and adult betrayal, featuring a high-powered crisis consultant who gets swept up in murder and scandal involving a wealthy political family.

Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She is doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite PR firm in Southern California whose clients include movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, a distinguished statesman who also happens to be the father of Anabelle, Maggies estranged best friend from high school.

Senator Paxtons young female aide has been found murdered, and Maggie must run damage control to prevent the scandal from growing. Thrown back into the Paxtons glamorous world, Maggie is unexpectedly flooded with memories from the stormy years in high school when her friendship with Anabelle was dramatically severed after a tragedy that neither of them has been able to forget. As Maggie gets further embroiled in the lives of the Paxtons, she realizes that the ties of her old friendship are stronger than she thinks.

Riveting and suspense-filled, Damage Control examines our craving for celebrity and spectacle, and how far the bonds of friendship can stretch before they break forever.

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Publisher : Scribner (6 September 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 372 pages
ISBN-10 : 0743296745
ISBN-13 : 978-0743296748
Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm

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Cheryl B. Dale

GREAT READ

Reviewed in the United States on 22 June 2013

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Our heroine, Maggie, does damage control.

Movie star caught on tape elbowing street person? Maggie's company moves in: the star's just given bocoodles of money for a homeless shelter; the man deliberately grabbed her.

Football player gets arrested for drugs? Her company puts the best face on it. Yeah, he was arrested, but he didn't know they were in his car. Easy enough to persuade one of his posse to take the fall. Not that Maggie's company does anything illegal. She hopes.

You get the picture. Putting the best spin on questionable actions while staying within the law. That's what Maggie does.

Then a scandal arises involving a glamorous political family Maggie once knew; a family she pretended were her own as she grew up. Even the tragedy that rent the friendship never stopped her missing them.

Her boss knows she was once an insider and deliberately puts her in with them as they try to put the best face on the scandal. Maggie's once again drawn into their world, but she walks a fine line between friend and informer.

All the while we wonder what's going on, the secret of one tragic summer lies behind it all. And not till the riveting climax do we discover what really happened.

If you like psychological suspense with a hint of romance, this is a great read.

Larry

Mislead

Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2013

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I felt duped by all the positive reviews I read before downloading this book. Thye topic and story line was quite good and refreshingly new to me. However, this author has a propensity for long, long run-on sentences with prepasitional phrases and parentheitacal asides. Drove me crazy! Besides the unnecessarily long rhetoric she also had a propensity for filler and side trips. Her interest in the chemical make-up of perfume had no place in the book and I would hazard a guess that at least one-third of the book was "filler" intended to increase volume. I don't like cheating - that is, speed-reading or jumping ahead in books but found my self getting angry at filler and doing so. Don't be m,islead by the positives.

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Daniel Kramer

Absolutely Incredible Writing....

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2014

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The first half of this book may well be one of the best books that I have read in a very long time. The writing is gorgeous. Her use of words and imagery and description is perfect. I had to look up a lot of words but every time that I did, I found that the word used was perfect to describe the event or thing.
But then the second half of the book becomes a thriller. And that part was predictable and just ok. Read the book. If you do not absolutely love the first half of the book, I would be surprised. I wish her editor had told her to keep up that story and forget the thriller angle. A great book about Damage Control and PR would have been enough.

Ria Darling

Hard to Put Down

Reviewed in the United States on 6 October 2011

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I'm a fan of the Eve Diamond books and this one (a stand alone, not part of that series) is also excellent. It's a fast paced book that takes the reader through the actions of 2 high school girls and how these actions later haunt them. The main character & narrator, Maggie, has quirks that make her relateable and a compelling narrator. It thought it was an excellent portrait of high school and how we retain the ghosts of the past and also an excellent mystery with twists and turns everywhere. I didn't give it five stars because in the middle things get a little confusing and convoluted but it's a quick read and hard to put down.

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Chloe's Mom

Denise Hamilton at her suspense-filled best!

Reviewed in the United States on 5 October 2011

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I've been a fan of Denise Hamilton ever since a friend recommended I read "The Jasmine Trade," the first book in Hamilton's superb Eve Diamond series. Unfortunately, her first one-off wasn't really my cup of tea, but let me tell you, "Damage Control" has brought me back around in a big way--from its double-entendre title (referring to both a PR objective and the book's "damaged" characters who compartmentalize their past traumas in order to move forward) to the way the book moves back and forth in time to illuminate how the past can come back to haunt the present in ways we can't begin to imagine. There are two mysteries central to the narrative: the first is an incident that happened to two 16-year-old girls one night on the beach and which brought an end to their friendship; the second is a murder connected to the father (now a U.S. Senator) of one of the girls. The other girl--now in her early thirties and working for a high-powered PR firm hired by the senator, which assigns her to the case--is brought back into a world and family she thought she had left far behind to unwillingly confront unanswered questions about who those people really were--and about what really happened that night years ago on the beach. Hamilton's lifelong fascination with perfume and scent gets a full airing here, too. This is a first-rate read, and one I'm recommending to all my friends.

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