{"product_id":"9780312549206","title":"The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MILLIONAIRE PLAYBOY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Novack, Jr. was born into a hotel empire, Miami's lavish Fontainbleau. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would ironically end in another hotel room—where the police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA HISTORY OF VIOLENCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSeven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation—when his ex-stripper wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for 24 hours and robbed him. Claiming it was a sex game, he never pressed charges and never followed through with a divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA FAMILY MURDER MYSTERY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eProsecutors believed Narcy let the killers into the room and watched them brutalize Novack. They also suspected she was involved in the death of Novack's mother, who took a fatal fall months before. Strangely, it was Narcy's own daughter who implicated her to the police—in this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e—Howard Goldberg,VH1.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012055548144,"sku":"9780312549206","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312549206_p0.jpg?v=1763761128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312549206","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}