Review Opp-New chick-lit/mystery: Sugar Tower





NEW YORK - Sep 22, 2010 - Veteran real estate broker, Jessica Dee Rohm, who has sold multi-million dollar condominiums for developers from Manhattan to Moscow, comes SUGAR TOWER! Set in today's Manhattan, Sugar Tower is a sharp and funny tale of a woman forced to reinvent herself as the platforms she built her life upon are dissolving beneath her feet. With uncanny perceptiveness, this novel delves into recent societal shifts that impact us all - the real estate bubble, the transience of wealth, the changing face of print journalism - in the context of a murder mystery that titillates and dazzles from beginning to end. The question on everyone's lips: Is Sugar Tower fiction...or fact?

In Sugar Tower, the great real estate crash has pulled the rug out from under one of New
York's best known developers. While he struggles to keep his family dynasty afloat, his wife is found dead in the swimming pool of his newest trophy condominium, Sugar Tower. The newspaper reporter covering the real estate beat at the City's second largest daily becomes obsessed with investigating the death of the developer's wife and inadvertently discovers secrets about Sugar Tower's wealthy occupants, normally guarded by doormen and concierges, as well as a few about herself.

Sugar Tower was a quarter-finalist for the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel of the Year Award, garnering the following comments from one of the contest's expert readers:

"Fascinating and well-written. I was hooked pretty quickly.the fact-dense prose flowed well and clearly, giving no pause. It's not easy to introduce a number of characters early in a work without putting the reader off or generating confusion, but in this case it was cleverly done with enough description and involvement to make them stick. The murder scene and surrounding characters were well built and can be recalled as needed. The subject matter surrounding this mystery is timely and fresh without calling attention to itself. The demise of the printed news story, the consequences of a young woman building her career first, the wide dispersion of families, the trophy wife, the downside of privilege and the fragility of invested wealth are among themes woven into [Sugar Tower], any or all of which ...make this a first rate read."



About the book:

Sugar Tower by Jessica Dee Rohm

ISBN: 978-1453650097

Publisher: Olivicas Press

Date of publish: Sept 15, 2010

Pages: 301

S.R.P.: $16.00



About the author:

Jessica Dee Rohm is a serial entrepreneur with a MFA in Creative Writing and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Sugar Tower is Ms. Rohm's third novel. Make Me an Offer and The Secret Life of Sandrina M. are still in print.


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