Too Damn Rich - Softcover

Judith Gould, whose books have been translated into twenty-two languages, lives and writes in Malden Bridge, New York.

Gould sets her novel in the midst of the New York City art auction scene and peoples it with a range of women and men, from working-class Kenzie Turner, an expert on old masters, to superrich Becky V, who has married and buried three wealthy husbands, including a U.S. president, a Greek tycoon, and a Spanish nobleman. The unlikely pair are brought together by Becky's friend, an impoverished countess who gets a job in Kenzie's department through the demands of the auction house owner's nouveau rich wife. The contrast in these women's lives is the most interesting facet in this otherwise formulaic, oversexed fiction. Throughout, Gould inserts short chapters, a "countdown to terror," that reveal plans for a major criminal activity aimed at the auction house by an international group of expert criminals, whose eventual attack is a startling tour de force. Denise Perry Donavin