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Shelly Dickson Carr celebrates ‘Ripped’

Bill Brett for the Boston Globe

Beacon Hill’s Shelly Dickson Carr (also known as Michelle Karol) celebrated her new book, “Ripped,” at the Four Seasons over the weekend. The novel, which is described as a “Jack the Ripper time travel thriller,” is due out in December. Carr was surrounded at the party by about 350 of her closest friends.