Welcome to the Future Widows’ Club–a secret society of women who’ve been treated like garbage by their horrible husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a divorce. But sometimes waiting can be murder… is staying in the marriage–with a little assistance from the Future Widows’ Club, of course–while she amasses the necessary evidence to send him to prison.
But when Chris is murdered, Jolie becomes the prime suspect. And her alibi? She was at an FWC meeting, which doesn’t exactly lend itself to innocence. But when old flame Jake Malone–the man Jolie ditched to marry Chris–is assigned lead detective on the case she knows she’s really in hot water. Because suddenly the new widow is thinking that a life sentence with no hope for parole–with him– wouldn’t be too bad.
TOP TEN REASONS WHY WIDOWHOOD IS PREFERABLE TO DIVORCE…
1.)Instead of losing half–half your assets and half your friends–a widow keeps it all.
2.)People offer sympathy.
3.)Those same people usually bring food.
4.)Black is slimming.
5.)Less risk of humiliation–a dead husband can’t remarry a twenty-something pilates instructor barely out of college with better breasts and a bellybutton ring.
6.)A widow is a martyr whereas a divorcee is oftentimes unfairly deemed damaged goods or viewed with suspicion.
7.)Life insurance.
8.)More life insurance.
9.)Death is permanent–no Jerry Springer-like meetings, courtroom brawls or bitter debates over who was right or wrong. (You were right, of course.)
10.)The ultimate last word…and you have it.
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very interesting premise. enjoyed every page.
Entertaining read, but the cops’ resolution of the case just seemed a little too improbable to me. (The actual doer-of-the-deed seemed very probable, however!)
Needs some editing clean-up. That tends to bump me out of the story.
Kinda funny easy read
Just ok. Kinda fluff.
This is a note to the author – DON’T HAVE YOUR CHARACTERS POKE THEIR TONGUES IN THEIR CHEEKS! No one does that! Have you even imagined what it would be like to be talking to someone and see a tongue-shaped lump appear in the side of their face? It is a beyond-weird mannerism to assign to a character, and more than one of them did it. Just please stop. And spend more time editing. And don’t replace every “and” in your compound sentences with a comma – it gets annoying. Thank you.
Cute book, but needs editing, lots of errors. Surprise ending. Going to check out next one in the series.
This is a really cute story. The Future Windows’ Club is a great idea for women whose husbands treat them badly, but they have decided to wait for them to die instead of divorcing them. The members meet weekly to update the others when they have done something to make widowhood easier or to party if one of them actually becomes a widow. The characters are described in a way that makes you feel like you know them.
Jolie is invited to join the club because it’s well-known that her marriage is awful and her husband is a jerk. He humiliates her at every opportunity and cheats on her regularly. When she finds him dead in their home, she is a suspect. Her former boyfriend, Jake, is the detective on the case. He believes she is innocent but can’t understand why she doesn’t tell him about the things she is doing that make her look guilty.
This is a fun story, even with a murder in it. You never know who the murderer was until the end and will be surprised at the person.