Synopses & Reviews
Call her superficial, but Susie B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great—and why not? Jonah Gersten, M.D., a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, clearly adored her. He was handsome, successful, and a doting dad to their four-year-old triplets Dashiell, Evan, and Mason. But when Jonah is found in the Upper East Side apartment of second-rate “escort” Dorinda Dillon, Susie is overwhelmed with questions left unanswered. It’s bad enough to know your husband’s been murdered, but even worse when you’re universally pitied (and quietly mocked) because of the sleaze factor. None of it makes sense to Susie—not a sexual liaison with someone like Dorinda, not the “better not to discuss it” response from Jonah’s partners. With help from her tough-talking, high-style Grandma Ethel who flies in from Miami, she takes on her snooty in-laws, her husband’s partners, the NYPD, and the DA (is the person arrested for the homicide the actual perp, or just an easy mark for a prosecutor who hates the word “unsolved”?), as she tries to prove that her wonderful life with Jonah was no lie.
Susan Isaacs brilliantly turns the conventions of the mystery on end as Susie Gersten, suburban mom, floral designer, and fashion plate, searches not so much for answers to her husband’s death as for answers to her own life.
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“Isaacs brings it all together in this fast and furious ride through wanton greed, fragile relationships, and love worth fighting for.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Isaacs' latest Jewish-gal-under-stress adventure purrs along perfectly--sharply funny, all-knowing, and marvelously diverting.”--Donna Seaman, Booklist
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"Nobody but nobody skewers vanity with the daring yet big-hearted wit of Susan Isaacs. As Husbands Go is mandatory reading for anyone who's married, not married, was married or is thinking of getting married. I laughed my head off. And I was profoundly moved. That's what Isaacs does. And she does it better than anyone else on earth."--Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed and To My Dearest Friends
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“Very funny… A freewheeling comic monologue, part satire, part whine, socially acute and skillfully vicious.”—Washington Post
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“A master of the genre.”—O, the Oprah Magazine
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“Wildly sassy… Susie is an irresistible character.”—Columbus Dispatch
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“Issacs is a master of witty fiction with an undercurrent of emotional truth.”—USA Today
Synopsis
Acclaimed and bestselling author, Susan Isaacs's latest witty and unconventional thriller about a wife's search for her husband's killer.
About the Author
Susan Isaacs was born in Brooklyn and educated at Queens College. Her novels include Compromising Positions, Close Relations, Almost Paradise, Any Place I Hang My Hat, and As Husbands Go. A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award, Isaacs serves as chairman of the board of Poets & Writers, and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America. Her fiction has been translated into thirty languages. She lives on Long Island with her husband.