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After All These Years

Mon, 12 Jul 1993 14:41:06 +0300

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"We're back on affluent suburban Long Island—Isaacs country—and she doesn't miss a beat or a bet when describing its inhabitants." —New York Times Book Review

Written with her trademark style, effervescent charm, and snappy wit, New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs delivers a delicious and insightful look at love and marriage—and homicide.

The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: Her nouveau riche husband, Richie, is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA. So, when he's found murdered in their exquisitely appointed kitchen, no one is surprised to find Rosie's prints all over the weapon.

The suburban English teacher is the prime suspect—the police's only suspect. And she knows she'll spend the rest of her life in the prison library unless she can unmask the real...

Almost Paradise

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:47:57 +0200

Fate can be benevolent.
Or incredibly cruel.
That's what Nick and Jane will learn...
Just take their relationship. Nick is stunningly handsome, the blue-eyed scion of a blue-blood New York family. Rich, talented, confident, he will become the world's most famous movie star. Jane is delightfully funny, a dark-skinned, dark-haired, half-Jewish, half-German daughter of the Midwest. Smart, gifted, loving, she will become famous in her own right as well...From the time they first meet in their Social and Intellectual History of the U.S. course at Brown University, it's love at first sight. Coming together from two very different worlds, they will cast off adversity and disapproval to forge a life filled with work, love, and children.But fame and success come at a high price--their marriage. Just when it seems the promise of their love might be renewed, an accident leaves Jane hovering between life and death. Now, it's not only their union that...

Lily White

Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:47:53 +0200

Compromising Positions

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:47:54 +0200

A Long Island housewife investigates the murder of a local dentist in Isaacs's classic mystery of the dark side of suburbiaThough she can't admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored. Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner. Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their Long Island split-level is a ho-hum affair, but when a local dentist is murdered in his office, Judith's curiosity gets the better of her.Judith soon learns that Dr. Fleckstein's private life wasn't as immaculate as his smile, and anyone in town might be the murderer. And when her neighbor becomes the chief suspect, Judith must find the real killer or risk losing her only friend in all of suburbia.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

As Husbands Go

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:47:54 +0200

Magic Hour

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:47:56 +0200

Close Relations

Sat, 22 Nov 1980 09:47:55 +0300

Bad, Bad Seymour Brown

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:41:05 +0300

New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs returns to a pair of her readers' favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad, who must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases—before the crime's sole survivor is killed

When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force of the FBI.

But then her retired NYPD detective father gets a call from good-natured and slightly nerdy film professor April Brown—one of the victims of a case he was never able to solve. When April was a five-year-old, she'd emerged unscathed from the arson that killed her parents. Now, two decades later, April is asking for help. Someone has made an attempt on her life. It takes only...

Shining Through

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:47:54 +0200

It's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret. She's head over heels in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy League. Not that she even has a chance--he'd never take a second look at a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking care of her faded beauty of a mother and following bulletins on the war in Europe. For Linda, though, the war will soon become all too real. Engulfing her nation and her life, it will offer opportunities she's never dreamed of. A chance to win the man she wants...a chance to find the love she deserves.Made into the movie of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson, Shining Through is a novel of honor, sacrifice, passion, and humor. This is vintage Susan Isaacs, a tale of a spirited woman who wisecracks her way into heroism and history--and into your heart.

Compliments of a Friend

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:47:55 +0200

Compromising Positions’s Judith Singer is back in a story that delivers plenty of Susan Isaacs’s renowned wit and sharp-eyed observations of the contemporary scene—along with a riveting mystery!Chic Vanessa Giddings, founder and CEO of Panache, the largest employment agency on Long Island, falls into a coma in the designer shoe department of Bloomingdale’s . . . and dies. It’s not long before Judith Singer, former housewife, current widow, and local history professor, decides to investigate. She cannot believe the official ruling: that her wildly successful, confident, and iron-willed neighbor committed suicide with a drug overdose. Vanessa was buying shoes, and Judith knows accessorizing is a life-affirming act. So was it foul play?Tracking the gossip about the late Vanessa and trusting her own acute instincts about human nature, Judith encounters more than a few surprises (including a big romantic one) as she investigates the death—and the life—of the misjudged mogul who turned out to have been more vulnerable than anyone guessed. This ebook features an afterword by Susan Isaacs, as well as an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from her personal collection.

Review

“[Susan Isaacs is] a witty, wry observer of contemporary life.” —The New York Times Book Review“Isaacs is a master of witty fiction with an undercurrent of emotional truth.” —USA Today“One of pop literature’s most disarming and charming characters.” —Newsday“I can think of no other novelist—popular or highbrow—who consistently celebrates female gutsiness, brains and sexuality. She’s Jane Austen with a schmear.” —National Public Radio’s Fresh Air

About the Author

Susan Isaacs (b. 1943) is a New York Times bestselling author of mysteries and literary fiction. Born in Brooklyn, she worked in New York politics before writing her first mystery, Compromising Positions, in 1978. A runaway success, the story of a housewife-turned-detective was adapted into a film starring Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. Chairman of the literary organization Poets & Writers and a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, Isaacs is a winner of the John Steinbeck Award, the Marymount Manhattan Writing Center Award, and the Writers for Writers Award. She lives and works on Long Island.

Past Perfect

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:47:56 +0200

A TV writer's past sends her on a search for an old friend who's gone missingKatie Schottland likes writing for TV. Besides being lively and lucrative, creating Spy Guys has one major advantage over her old job: She's unlikely to get killed doing it. Schottland is ex-CIA, a career she left behind after an abrupt firing sent her from top secret documents to screenplays. No matter how hard she tries, though, she still misses the days when the spies she worked with were real.Her nostalgia means she's quite excited when an old friend, still at the Agency, calls asking for advice on a case. It seems routine until the friend disappears, sending Katie on a globetrotting adventure whose thrills are just as potent as on Spy Guys— except now the bullets aren't blanks and there are no commercial interruptions.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

Any Place I Hang My Hat

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:17:11 +0200

A political reporter hunts for her long-missing biological motherAmy Lincoln grew up in a rough neighborhood, but she didn't let that stop her from doing what she wanted with her life: first Harvard, then Columbia journalism school, and then a position editing a highbrow news weekly at the tender age of twenty-seven. Amy is one who goes after what she wants, and right now she's interested in the upcoming presidential election, where she smells a candidate's secret that could prove to be the biggest scoop since the Pentagon Papers.While hunting for her story, Amy goes on a more personal quest: seeking out the mother who abandoned her two decades earlier, leaving her to be raised by her con artist father and clueless grandmother. As a reporter she can't stand not knowing the whole truth, and she intends to track down her mother—no matter how painful that truth may be.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the...

Long Time No See

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:57:12 +0200

The heroine of Compromising Positions returns to investigate a disappearanceWhere did Courtney Logan go? The former investment banker turned suburban dilettante had not lived in Shorehaven for long, but had begun to establish herself there. Her small business—a video production company dedicated to filming newborns—was taking off, and she seemed to have settled into life outside of the big city. Then, suddenly, she disappeared.Judith Singer wants to find her. Two decades after the thrilling case of a murdered dentist, the Long Island housewife is now town historian—and recently widowed. She needs a hobby, and Courtney Logan's disappearance seems like just her kind of fun.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the author's personal collection.