Stiletto Dig

STILETTO DIG, Mimi Beck’s debut women’s fiction novel takes place on the Jersey shore, where a group of rich friends (sometimes frenemies) gather for the summer. Ruby Sutton, who grew up on the shore, but married well in Manhattan, is the self-proclaimed social director. At a party for her newest venture, a line of stiletto shoes, the rising fitness/wellness guru Lucy Hall is stabbed seven times with a stiletto heel during a power outage. During the investigation and rising suspicions among the group, nerves fray and each couple involved is pushed to face the realities and fragilities of their relationship. By turns funny and serious, the book delves into the complexities of what character believe they should want versus what they actually do want, and how those tensions create further tensions with their friends facing similar dilemmas, while all pretend everything is fine. Surprising twists in the third act, and the choices and discoveries the characters make about each other and themselves give the book’s core a powerful heart. The lessons the characters learn about love, trust, belonging, and personal truth will resonate in this funny and poignant book.