Though only seen alive in the one page preface, Florence Horvath is the murder victim at the center of the novel. An heiress in her own right, she lives a decadent, party lifestyle which she introduces the Plum twins—her younger sisters - to. After years of abuse by her father, Florence makes a videotape of herself with two other men and sends it to him as a way of telling him that she is breaking away. Angered and hurt by the tape, her father murders her in Paradise.
