Andy Kendricks is a debutante drop out.  She married a plumber who she divorced eighteen months later and reunited with her father who had almost disowned her.  Now she’s a teacher with a great boyfriend.  Brian Malone is a defense attorney who is such a straight arrow that he had to be almost forced to go to a close friend’s bachelor party at a sleazy local “gentleman’s club”.  Brian disappears from the club and no one has heard from him.  Then his car shows up with a naked woman dead in it.  Now the police are looking for an unfaithful/possibly homicidal boyfriend.  Andy can’t believe her upstanding lover is a murderer and she’s going all out to prove it.  With the help of her mother and her boyfriend and Brian’s ex-girlfriend, they go on a chase involving kidnappers and money launderers.  Andy might get more than her heart broken. 

If you like your mystery with a lot of humor, then this story by Susan McBride is for you.  Ms. McBride keeps the suspense high and the dialogue witty.  Secondary characters like Andy’s socialite mother and her blue-blooded friends give the story a lot of spark and fizzle.  These ladies are the experts on Manolos, the perfect manicure and big hair.  This reviewer could hardly put this book down.  It kept her glued to the pages and frantically turning each one to find out what would happen next.  When the reader has finished this story she will be hungering for more, and there is more.  Susan McBride has written more stories of the dropout debutante, the titles are THE LONE STAR LONELY HEARTS CLUB, THE GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER and BLUE BLOOD.  This reviewer will be putting these titles on her wish list right away.

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