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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780061030437 ISBN: 0061030430 Label: HarperTorch Manufacturer: HarperTorch Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: July 01, 2002 Publisher: HarperTorch Release Date: July 02, 2002 Studio: HarperTorch Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: In Susan Isaac's Long Time No See, Courtney Logan, former investment analyst, devoted mother, and Long Island housewife, leaves her home on Halloween night for a quick trip to the grocery store. Five months later, her badly decomposed body is found floating in the backyard pool, concealed by the pool cover. Enter Judith Singer, who helped find a murderer in Isaac's 1978 bestseller, Compromising Positions. Something about the Logan case doesn't make sense to Judith, and she becomes so engrossed in the mystery that she actually knocks on the grieving husband's door and offers to help exonerate him. Long Time No See draws on the best of the light, character-driven mysteries, like those by Janet Evanovich and Mary Daheim. Isaac's first- person heroine is impulsive enough to get herself into trouble, yet thoughtful enough to invite confidences. And her voice is appealingly funny and honest. "Since becoming a widow," she reflects, when faced with a twist in her investigation, I'd tried hard not to indulge in the lonely person's Happy Hour: talking to oneself. About a year earlier, in the drugstore, I found myself befuddled, dithering between a condom rack and a display of batteries, and was startled when I heard my own loud voice demanding: 'Why am I here?' But now I gave in and had a chat with me. Although clever and well-written, the novel's real strength lies in its characterization and in Isaac's leisurely unfolding of the implausible dark side of the perky blonde murder victim. This is a welcome outing from a deservedly popular writer. --Regina Marler Product Description: It's been twenty years, and Judith's life has definitely changed. Now a history professor and a widow, she hasn't seen Nelson Sharpe of the Nassau County Police Department in all that time. But she still can't get her one-time lover out of her head. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when former investment banker turned suburban mommy extraordinaire Courtney Logan vanishes from Long Island into thin air. Everyone suspects husband, Greg, the darkly handsome son of flashy Long Island mobster Fancy Phil Lowenstein. Ever the good neighbor, Judith offers her services to Greg, but he shows her the door, thinking she's just a nut. His father, however, isn't so sure -- he just may have other plans for the wily Judith... Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A little ambivalent, but still a fanI am not sure what it is about a Susan Isaacs book. Her characters are appealing, although they tend to be cliched, esp, when she is trying to portray WASPs, Southerners, or basically anyone who isn't Jewish and from New York. And she tends to repeat a lot of her witticisms. For instance, most of her books have to include something about someone's last name or maiden name being used as a first name, just as an example. As though to say, 'this was amusing in this book, I'll use the formula ... Read More Rating:  - Audio AwfulI regret that I did not read a previous review that mentioned how awful the audio version is. The Author should not have been the Narrator. It was difficult enough listening to her normal Brooklyn accent but her mimicking other voices was painful. Her Southern Belle accent sounded like a Neanderthal (truly). As far as the story goes, her amateur detective has the pool-cleaning man from the house where a murder was committed come and give her an estimate on having a pool installed so that she can question ... Read More Rating: - Where HAVE You Been!My favorite newspaper, Nashville TENNESSEAN promotes Ms. Isaacs as: "Reading (Susan) Isaacs is like taking a good friend to lunch. (In fact, I saw a man reading a paperback at lunch in public just yesterday!) "You get funny observations on contemporary life, great gossip, and a great time." Her best-selling COMPROMISING POSITIONS (1985) was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. Judith was the sleuth and now, twenty years later, her neighbor has been found dead in the backyard ... Read More Rating: - Book OK, audio edition terribleThis is the first Susan Isaacs book I have read. I listened to the abridged audio CD version of the book. Ms. Isaacs is the narrator herself. It is terrible. I am unable to concentrate on the story - I am so distracted by her voice. She tries to do "accents" of some of the characters - all the accents turn out to be caricatures - of southern accents, of Eastern European, of Brooklyn, etc. It is almost unlistenable. Do yourself a favor, Ms. Isaacs - save the narration for the professionals! Rating:  - pulled me in like a fish to the baitI really enjoyed this book. It took me a little bit to get into the story but when I did, I kept on reading until I finished the book. Courtney Logan, who retired from a financial occupation to stay home with her family and, as a sideline, had developed a small business of her own, has disappeared. She went to get some apples and although her vehicle was found in the garage she disappeared. Five months later her body is found in the pool under the pool liner with two bullet wounds to her head. ... Read More |
