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Set in the world of the wealthy, this murder mystery takes readers from Park Avenue to Mount Kilimanjaro and back.—Diya Chacko, Oc Register, 18 May 2026 Those donors are going to come from the wealthy part of this county.—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 15 May 2026 Ray Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, is on a mission to inform average income-earning Americans about how the tax code favors the wealthy—including philanthropists.—Laurie Udesky, Time, 14 May 2026 Wasn’t this, in fact, the point of Billy’s story about the wealthy legless lawyer in New Orleans?—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for the wealthy