Too Rich To Live

by Lawrence Light

Determined to expose the Billionaire Boys Club for tax fraud, financial reporter Karen Glick discovers that she, along with the members of this club, have been targeted for murder by a radical group, forcing her to find a way to survive so that she can tell her story. Original.

338 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2005

About the author

Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Lawrence Light is an award-winning financial journalist with a distinguished career that includes The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, and more.

He is also an acclaimed author of mysteries and thrillers. He served for 3 years as Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America and is currently serving as Treasurer. He is a member of International Thriller Writers and appears regularly at Bouchercon, ThrillerFest, and NoirCon.

​He lives in Manhattan with his fabulous wife and sometimes co-author Meredith Anthony.

Reviews

[Nick Girvin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess the plot was fine, but this lacked substance in terms of characters. For one, none of them were likeable, and I didn’t really have any reason to want any of them to win or lose, live or die, etc. It’s basically a battle between billionaires, activists, a journalist, and a jealous douche that got cucked by one of the billionaires. So, nothing there. Moreover, there are so damn many characters that by the time I actually had a grip on them, we were 200 pages in and I was just ready to reach the conclusion because of how disinterested I was in their narratives. Thus, it was a slog of another 150 or so pages to figure out what happens.

It wasn’t horrible, but I’d call it a solid idea that was executed very poorly.

[Meredith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book in my husband Lawrence Light's Karen Glick series about a financial reporter who solves crimes on Wall Street. Try them, they're terriffic!