Mousey, overweight Stacey Sullivan would love to trade places with her glamorous socialite BFF, Jessica James—that’s until she discovers Jessica murdered in her own home. Whip-smart detective Rachel Storme is ready to exchange her gun and badge for a gardener’s hat and hoe. But she reluctantly puts her plans on hold when she’s asked to help solve Jessica’s murder. These two strangers from … different generations—Stacey a millennial and Rachel a baby boomer—become unlikely friends in their pursuit of JUSTICE FOR JESSICA. But their friendship is put to the test when Stacey insists that her husband, Matt, is innocent in spite of evidence that speaks to the contrary. Rachel, baffled by Stacey’s blind loyalty to Matt, doggedly fights to take Matt down, but with Stacey’s help, he eludes her at every turn. Is Matt the killer or could Grant, Jessica’s husband, be the culprit? Perhaps it was her jealous sister, Georgette or the maid, Rosa? No matter who the killer is, Rachel, by any means necessary, is determined to find her man or woman.
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Superfluous information. Unrealistic characters. Readable, but not a page turner.
From conflicted good guys to unlovable victim was a great read. People needed to confront their demons and keep on trying to solve the case. A detective unwilling to just take the easy and obvious way to a conviction
Love this author want more
Couldn’t put it down until I finished.
I liked the premise but it was just too unbelievable the way the author had the cops interacting with the main character. never in a million years. had to read it to the end to see what happened, but didn’t really want to. sorry!
good read.
This writer desperately needed an editor to correct run one, fragments, inconsistent verb tenses, and open quotations. Plus the characters were stereotypical and the inconsistency was amazing. The “fat” character spends two days exercising and can suddenly fit through a fence that was impossible days earlier. Even Jenny Craig isn’t that good!
Good read that I would recommend.
Good who done it? Read it on the plane.
Loved it – couldn’t put the book down
I enjoyed this book because the author used a literary device I’d never encountered in a mystery. Instead of one main character making some passing reference to how another, younger, character reminded them of themselves at that age, this book alternates chapters written in the voice of those two people. As someone on the older Rachel end of the spectrum, I admit that cringed at some of the idiotic things young Stacy did… Until I remembered some of the incredibly stupid things I did at that age too.
The only problem I had with the book could be my problem rather than the book’s. I’ve become used to contemporary mysteries maintaining a high degree of realism relative to police work. Consequently, I had difficulty with Rachel’s position relative to the force with whom she worked. She begins on extended leave because she couldn’t handle the job, is cajoled back by a boss of almost angelic status, then in her own way becomes even more of a flaming wildcard than her younger alter-ego. Still, I got the existential message inherent in this and could accept it.
But then when the case is solved, Rachel opens a business about as remote from police work as possible that we’re left with the impression she could up and abandon at any time another police case that captured her attention came along. Speaking as someone who left a complex, high-pressure job to become self-employed doing quite different work I love, there’s no way I could drop everything to pursue my fast-paced former job and expect my business to be there when I got back.
Really a good read kept your attention all the way through
It was very good- kept u wanting to read more. Just when u thought u knew who did it, it surprised u!
Really enjoyed it
Enjoyed it!
EXCELLENT READ
Definitely a new favorite author!
great reading
I wouldn’t call it a page-turner, but it did keep me guessing until the end.
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