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Title: Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0-515-09302-5 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: So good I wished it were longer
Comment: I bought this book after listening to its sequel, "Long Time, No See" on tape on my daily commute to work. Like its sequel, "Compromising Positions" centers around the life and love interests of Judith Singer. In this book, Judith is in her mid-thirties, a bored housewife with a charming house and less-than-charming dud of a husband. Though the plot of this novel is Judith's involvement in a homicide investigation, I found that the real story was in Judith's marital dilemma. What do you do when you are a bright educated young woman who loves her children but longs for a career and adult companionship? What do you do when your husband works long hours, fails to provide you with the companionship you seek, tells you you've gotten fat, and treats you like the maid? In Judith's case, you have an affair with the lieutenant in charge of the murder investigation.
Judith's investigation into Dr. Bruce Fleckstein's murder is cleverly written and filled with twists and turns. It was interesting, but not the best part of this wonderful story. I appreceiated the author's humor, and her wonderful characterization of Judith, her self-righteous husband Bob, her wickedly clever best friend Nancy Miller, and her law and order lover, Nelson Sharpe. This book left me wanting more. I identified with Judith immensely despite the fact that I do not yet have children and I work outside the home. Read this book for its deft humor, clever mystery and immensely likeable heroine.
Rating: 5
Summary: Judith Singer's First Case
Comment: As a mystery author with my debut novel in its initial release, I found COMPROMISING POSITIONS fascinating. Susan Isaacs pulls together a winning combination for any mystery. Her writing is sharp. Her characters are original. Her plot takes many twists and turns. As one would expect, there is a humorous edge to this story. Judith Singer is a Long Island housewife who becomes obsessed with solving the murder of a local man about teeth--I mean town. He was murdered after having bedded half the women Judith knows and propositioning the other half. Her husband discourages her investigation, but she pursues it any way. She also meets a police detective who complicates her life more than a bit. COMPROMISING POSITIONS is a winning debut for Judith Singer. I merely wonder what happens in her life in the next twenty years. It will be a long time, no see.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great tale of Suburbia
Comment: OK, let's face it up front: This is a story about adultry, murder and intrigue in middle-American suburbia. It's not the type of lifestyle that most of us aspire to but in Susan Isaac's hands it is absolutely hilarious. This is one of the few books that made me laugh out loud - the word pictures created are too good for words.
IN fact, the whole tale - from plot to Jewish Angst to the heroine's thoughts - are the stuff of best sellers. I have a real attraction to those stories where the innocent bystander innocently becomes involves (and solves) a crime. This is all done between soccer rides for kids and fixing dinner for her hubby. (The movie was not nearly as good as the book but was still a hoot.) Definite read.
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Title: Long Time No See by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0061030430 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0061099481 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Close Relations by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0061099473 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shining Through by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0061030155 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs ISBN: 0061014656 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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