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 Judith
Singer is back! After twenty years, Susan Isaacs brings
us back the heroine from Compromising Positions, her
first and most beloved novel, and returns to a great
suspense story set in suburbia.
Judith's life has changed. She now has
her doctorate in history. Her workaday hours are spent
at St. Elizabeth's College, mostly squandered in history
department shriek-fests. She also is a widow. Her husband,
Bob, died one-half day after triumphantly finishing
the New York City Marathon in four hours and twelve
minutes. And although twenty years have passed without
her seeing him, she still cannot get her former lover,
Nelson Sharpe, of the Nassau County Police Department,
out of her system.
With Courtney Logan's dramatic disappearance,
all eyes turn instantly toward her husband, Greg Logan,
son of Long Island mobster Philip "Fancy Phil"
Lowenstein. But since there is no body, there is no
arrest. Then, in the less than merry month of May, Judith
comes home from work, turns on the radio, and hears
the Logans' pool man telling a reporter that he opened
the pool and found...a raccoon? Not quite. "I see,
you know, it's...a body! Jeez. Believe it or not, I'm
still shaking." The woman in the pool turns out
to be Courtney, and now it's officially homicide. And
Judith comes alive! She offers her services to the police's
chief suspect, Greg Logan, but he shows her the door,
thinking her just another neighborhood nut. But his
father isn't so sure: Fancy Phil may have other plans
for her.
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