I am shocked, SHOCKED, that my
sister has not yet passed this book along to me! How did I see it first..!! She always spots these sorts of books long
before I do; me being up here in the hinterlands.
She and my daughter, namesakes, Pat
and Patricia, both have affinities to Palo Alto, Stanford, and the Sillycon
Valley mystique.
This is not a library book club selection
so I will synopsize the story line. Palo
Alto PD has their youngest female detective (Sam)antha assigned to a seeming
heart attack victim, and it turns out to be murder. He was a middle-age plastic surgeon, Dr.
Taylor, who’s rolling in dough. Turns
out he had multiple wives.
The multiple wives aspect allows the
author to switch points of view from wive(s) to detective, which Alice LaPlante
handles brilliantly. I loved her style
of writing. The plot isn’t overly
complicated but there are many people with motive.
The book has money, sex, and beautiful
people in beautiful settings. The author
sticks to her own gender, painting each suspect and the cops with believable
descriptions and sub-plots. The action mostly
takes place in the South Bay, Los Gatos, San Jose, and Palo Alto.
It’s a 300-page good read that I
will return to the library now.
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