Cover Story: A Novel
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Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.
A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!, Fortune, PopSugar, and more!
"It's exciting, it's surprising, it's satisfying, it's darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing."—Linda Holmes for Today.com
After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.
As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat's solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat's suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora's life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat's glamorous lifestyle, Cat's perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.
A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.
"[A] page-turner that's hilarious in its dedication to vamping on viral news stories about real-life strivers and cons from Delvey to Instagram personality Caroline Calloway ... a delicious read."—TIME magazine
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Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.
A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!, Fortune, PopSugar, and more!
"It's exciting, it's surprising, it's satisfying, it's darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing."—Linda Holmes for Today.com
After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.
As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat's solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat's suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora's life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat's glamorous lifestyle, Cat's perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.
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"It's Catch Me if You Can meets Sweetbitter, from the woman who blew the whistle on Uber's software engineering team—what's not to love?" — Entertainment Weekly
"[A] page-turner that's hilarious in its dedication to vamping on viral news stories about real-life strivers and cons from Delvey to Instagram personality Caroline Calloway ... a delicious read." — TIME magazine
"Taking inspiration from the Anna Delveys of the world, Cover Story is a delicious read about a young intern who gets caught up in a breathtakingly opulent—if claustrophobic—scheme (or four)." — Marie Claire
"Rigetti's fiction debut has a roller-coaster plot that gives off huge Anna Delvey vibes and an ending that will leave you with your jaw on the floor.... If you're a fan of tales about scams, grifters, and mysterious schemes, Cover Story needs to be on your TBR list." — Popsugar
"Cover Story is a good read ... man oh man, it's got suites at the Plaza, the FBI closing in, Russian hackers, designer clothes and a plot that stays ahead of the reader. Rigetti has written a need-to-read story."
— San Francisco Chronicle"[A] ridiculously fun romp." — E! Online
"A clever epistolary novel with an elegant con woman at its center—in other words, perfect escapism for this moment." — Seattle Times
"[C]inematic...Rigetti's propulsive narrative, which includes Instagram posts, text messages, and FBI case files, keeps the pages turning, and there's a juicy twist." — Publishers Weekly
"Inspired by the stories of Anna Sorokin, Caroline Calloway, and others, Cover Story is a captivating novel that readers won't be able to put down." — Shondaland
"Journalist Rigetti's debut kicks off beach-read season with a bang.... Drawing heavy inspiration from the true story of Anna Delvey, who conned New York's elite for several years in the mid-2010s, this book will be a must-read for the legions who followed Delvey's story with bated breath.... It's The Devil Wear's Prada meets Gone Girl, and it's delightful." — Booklist (starred review)
"[E]ntertaining...clever, fast-paced...the crafty Rigetti makes fraud a lot of fun. An entertaining shell game of a novel." — Kirkus Reviews
"Cover Story by Susan Rigetti is an unforgettable tale of scams and double-crosses told through emails, diary entries, and FBI correspondence." — Popsugar
"I just loved Susan Rigetti's Cover Story, which is an insightful, tense story that's exactly what you want from a twisty thriller about a hustler (think Anna Delvey) who isn't what she appears." — Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evie Drake Starts Over
"This juicy tale of stolen identities and ever-increasing fraud, set against a tony Manhattan backdrop, is told entirely through original documents—Instagram posts, FBI transcripts—that place the reader in the role of detective. But even self-styled Poirots won't see what's coming: the book ended with a wallop that made me literally gasp—and admire debut author Susan Rigetti's sure-handed, inventive page-turner all the more." — Stephanie Clifford, New York Times bestselling author of Everybody Rise
"The grifter gets a glow up in Susan Rigetti's crafty caper. Devilish, innovative, and lightning-paced, Cover Story is like an internet rabbit hole you can hold in your hands. What fun!" —...
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As Susan Fowler, Rigetti authored the acclaimed memoir Whistleblower and was subsequently named 2017 Time Person of the Year as one of "The Silence Breakers" whose actions helped launch #MeToo. Here she turns to fiction with the story of an aspiring young writer ensnared by someone who at first looks to be a mentor. During a summer internship at ELLE, struggling NYU student Lora Ricci meets the charismatic Cat Wolff, who persuades her to drop out of school and work as her ghostwriter. Lora is at first dazzled by Cat's glamorous lifestyle, but eventually Cat's shady side emerges. With a 50,000-copy first printing.
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February 15, 2022
An unsophisticated intern at a fashion magazine fears her new, wealthy mentor may be a con artist. Rigetti's entertaining first novel lays out how easily a grifter can take advantage of the system--and the na�ve. And no one seems to be a better target for a con artist than unsophisticated would-be writer Lora Ricci from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lora has just started an internship at glamorous Elle magazine in Manhattan, but she feels overwhelmed. She has failed her courses at NYU and is hiding her lost scholarship from her parents, and she knows she's at a disadvantage compared to the other trust fund-fueled interns around her. Then she meets charismatic contributing editor Cat Wolff, heiress to an Austrian billionaire's fortune, who offers her an opportunity that seems too good to be true. She invites Lora to move into her huge suite at the Plaza Hotel so that Lora can ghostwrite short stories for her, a plan that will surely catapult them to a lucrative literary contract. A savvier writer might balk at such a ridiculous suggestion--trying to climb the literary ladder is hardly the best way to access instant wealth--but the plan sounds plausible to the increasingly desperate Lora, who doesn't know what to do when her internship ends. Meanwhile, readers know something that Lora does not: Rigetti reveals from the start of this clever, fast-paced book that Cat is not all that she seems. The novel's opening pages consist of an FBI transcript, and Rigetti tells the story using a variety of ephemera--journal entries, Instagram posts, texts--to heighten the mystery as Lora begins to question Cat's motives and actions. This isn't a book to take too seriously, but the crafty Rigetti makes fraud a lot of fun. An entertaining shell game of a novel.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Rigetti (the memoir Whistleblower, as Susan Fowler) makes her fiction debut with a cinematic if implausible caper. Lora Ricci has pulled herself up by the bootstraps from a working-class Pennsylvania childhood through community college to NYU and a summer internship at Elle magazine. But unbeknownst to her parents and her fellow interns, Lora’s practically flunking out of college and has lost her scholarship. So when Cat, a charismatic and glamorous contributing editor, spots Lora’s writing talent and offers her a job as ghostwriter for stories sure to earn Cat “literary fame and fortune,” Lora jumps at the opportunity to escape her troubles. And she escapes them in style, moving in to Cat’s apartment at the Plaza Hotel and ordering room service daily. If the details about Cat’s life don’t quite add up (how can Cat afford the Plaza suite on a meager part-time salary?), Lora’s more than happy to look the other way—until she’s forced to realize that she’s been played. Rigetti’s propulsive narrative, which includes Instagram posts, text messages, and FBI case files, keeps the pages turning, and there’s a juicy twist. Lora’s character, however, is underdeveloped, and it’s mystifying whether she’s willfully clueless or simply naive. The overall success of this depends on whether readers are as adept at Lora at suspending disbelief. Agent: Liz Parker, Verve.
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Journalist Rigetti's debut kicks off beach-read season with a bang. Composed of email transcripts, FBI documents, Instagram posts, and diary entries, the novel primarily focuses on NYU student Lora--an intern at Elle magazine who is desperate to jumpstart her career--and her relationship with Cat Wolff, an Elle editor and big-spending socialite. Cat lures Lora into her world, convincing her to drop out and become her ghost writer for a potential novel and moving her into a spare room in a Plaza Hotel suite. While Lora writes off Cat's idiosyncrasies as the strange behavior of the obscenely wealthy, readers learn early on that there is no Cat Wolff, it's just one of an ever-growing string of aliases and stolen identities of a Russian con artist looking for her big score. Drawing heavy inspiration from the true story of Anna Delvey, who conned New York's elite for several years in the mid-2010s, this book will be a must-read for the legions who followed Delvey's story with bated breath. While Lora's character at times seems too naive to be believed, readers will love the plot, which twists until the very last page. It's The Devil Wears Prada meets Gone Girl, and it's delightful.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!, Fortune, PopSugar, and more!
"It's exciting, it's surprising, it's satisfying, it's darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing."—Linda Holmes for Today.com
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