Ahoy there mateys! I have liked other books by the author but this one was infuriatingly bad.  So much so that I read this at the beginning of the year and I couldn't bear to review it.  All the characters are selfish and hateful and rather short-sighted.  Normally I would be okay with unlikeable characters but the rest of the book was just plain ridiculous in that the elements seemed thrown in just to shock and not to further the plot.  Orgies, voodoo, drug use, ghost subplot, boring sex scenes, deaths that scientifically cannot work, and (gasp!) lesbians.  Not to mention that one of the characters is (gasp!) black.  Seriously, author.  Lesbians and black people are not shocking.  The first 3/4 of the book deal with stupid shallow women who marry for money and then get upset that they don't fit in with high society and complain about it.  Blech.  Then the dumb thriller/twist aspects get tossed in.  Messy and not recommended.  I have no idea why I bothered to finish this one.  That horrible ending!!  I don't think I will be reading any more of the author's works after this one.  I wish I could scrub this from my noggin.  (I hope the tv adaptation is murdered). Arrr!