"Three Single Wives" by Gina LaManna
Eliza Tate knows how to host a book club.
Keep the smooth, vintage wine flowing, invite a
famous, eccentric author, to engage in lively
conversation, and toy with the notion of what it
would be like to commit murder.
Indeed, that evening does end with a dead body, but
the enticing story actually begins six months earlier,
where the reader is introduced to four individuals
with a motive to plunge a knife into a victim so
many wanted eliminated.
There's Eliza, the poised, aloof, sometimes cold-hearted
literary agent, and Anne, the down-trodden, exhausted
mother of four, married to a well-respected cop with
secrets of his own. Penny, the not-so-innocent, wide-eyed
aspiring actress from Iowa, is infatuated with her elusive
professor, while partaking in a nasty little habit. And
Marguerite, the boisterous author herself, is a champion of
women with a clear disdain for men.
They have more in common with one another than they think,
and the reader (along with the prosecution) has the painstaking
job of deciphering the clever clues to uncover the real culprit.
An engaging, easy-to-read mystery that belies the adage
"Never underestimate the power of a woman scorned".
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