Susan Isaacs crea romanzi che approfondiscono le complessità delle relazioni e delle dinamiche sociali. Le sue narrazioni sono celebrate per le loro acute osservazioni sulla natura umana e la profonda intuizione psicologica. Isaacs combina abilmente l'intrigo con una profonda comprensione delle motivazioni dei suoi personaggi. Il suo stile distintivo e la sua avvincente narrazione lasciano un'impressione duratura nei lettori.
L'ora magica, quel momento particolare che precede l'alba o il tramonto, non è l'ideale solo per l'amore ma anche per il delitto. Proprio a quell'ora infatti, nella zona più esclusiva di Long Island, è stato assassinato il giovane e ambizioso produttore Sy Spencer. Un caso difficile per il detective Brady, soprattutto quando entra in scena l'affascinante ex moglie della vittima.
Quante donne sanno affrontare i colpi della vita senza crollare? Lily Wite ha vissuto molte esperienze, sia nel privato che nel lavoro. Da principessa di una favola, si trasforma in una donna autentica e frenetica dei nostri giorni, superando il peso dei suoi ingombranti cognomi. Nata White, rinnega le sue origini ebraiche per sposare Jasper "Jazz" Taylor, il ragazzo bene della tenuta accanto, ma la sua vita diventa un inferno dorato di ipocrisie negli anni Sessanta. Le apparenze ingannano e gli amori rivelano tradimenti devastanti. Come dire basta ai compromessi? Avvocato penalista, Lee ama essere in prima linea nei tribunali e, quando le viene affidato il caso Torkelson, deve rimettere in discussione le sue convinzioni professionali e personali. Le prove sono schiaccianti contro il suo assistito, Norman Torkelson, un uomo carismatico ma moralmente abietto, noto per le sue truffe matrimoniali. Dopo la morte di Bobette Frisch, strangolata nel suo appartamento, la verità è in bilico: Norman è colpevole o innocente? Menzogne e verità si scontrano in un affresco della società opulenta di Long Island, con personaggi indimenticabili e un caso avvincente che ha conquistato i lettori americani.
Meet Nicholas and Jane. He is stunningly handsome. She is wonderfully funny. He's a famous movie star. She becomes famous for quite another reason. They come from two very different worlds to forge a life together in this warm, witty and wonderfully entertaining novel of love and marriage, parents and children, struggle and success and . . . everything.
Long Island housewife Judith Singer is incredibly bored. So when a local dentist is found murdered and the police suspect her neighbor, that's all the excuse Judith needs to jump in and begin her own investigation. In between school runs and making dinner, she is drawn deeper into the case-and closer to the police detective in charge.
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 killer. Going into Manhattan on the lam, Rosie learns more about Richie than she ever wanted to know. And more about herself than she ever dreamed possible.
Amy was barely born with a spoon in her mouth let alone a silver one. Her mother abandoned her before her first birthday and her father, a small-time crook, was in jail more time than he was out. Raised by her flaky and slightly felonious grandmother, Amy worked ahrd and managed to get scholarships to boarding schools, then Harvard, then the Columbia School of Journalism. But now- a few years into her stint as a reporter for a prestigious magazine- she doesn't know who she is or how to connect with the world. Seeking answers, she sets out to find the mother she never knew... and maybe a place to belong.
It was a situation from which half-hour television comedies are made. "Marcia! In tonight's episode, Marcia Green's warm and winning and wise and wonderful Jewish family reminds her that she is thirty-five, divorced, and childless." That's Marcia on her close relations. True, she's one of the best speechwriters around in the tough world of New York's smoke-filled rooms, but her family wants something else for her. No, not that Irish person she's living with. Another doctor, or at least a dentist. But Marcia claims she's happy, getting plenty of the two things that exhilarate her most: sex and politics. She's not looking for commitment, and certainly not looking for a wealthy Harvard-educated man-about-town who is every mother's dream. Yet as wise mothers everywhere are fond of saying: you never know.
In this whip-smart suburban mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs, a retired FBI agent turned Long Island housewife taps into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets.
