by Susan Isaacs
First published 2010
Susie Gersten thought she had it all. Her husband Jonah was a successful Park Avenue plastic surgeon who adored her and their four-year-old triplets. Then police find Jonah murdered in the Upper East Side apartment of Dorinda Dillon, a low-rent escort. Everyone assumes Jonah was cheating, but Susie refuses to believe it. The affair makes no sense. Her husband's medical partners won't talk. The police treat her like a naive wife in denial. With her sharp-tongued grandmother Ethel flying in from Miami for backup, Susie takes on the NYPD, the district attorney, and her condescending in-laws. She's not just fighting to solve Jonah's murder. She's fighting to prove that her marriage was real and her life wasn't built on lies. Susan Isaacs crafts a mystery that turns the genre inside out, following a suburban mom and floral designer as she searches for truth about both her husband's death and her own identity.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Miami, New York, Park Avenue, Upper East Side
Period: 21st-century
344 pages · Hardcover · Scribner