This book caught me on the first sentence. Ok, this is a mystery book, we meet Lucy Fields a very rich house wife / home interior designer her husband the famous plastic surgeon the bratty daughter and smart son. Lucy’s husband Dan has been arrested for murder. Honestly I did not just give the plot away that is the first sentence. Lucy decides since she is a wiz at picking our the right Persian rug she can solve the murder case and clear her husbands name The book does have death scenes, fights and dry humor. So much is happening in this book there is not a lull in the story, of course half the stuff going on would never fall into place in real life just remember it’s a book and a book can do what it wants. It’s just a story so enjoy it for what it is a made up bit of fiction. I enjoyed this book it left me smiling.
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I'm wondering if this was a debut.

*checks* Yup. Why am I not surprised?

Honestly, I cut debutant authors some slack, because even as a reader, and avid journal writer, I know that it takes time to get comfortable with your writing. And that's why most authors first few books are disappointing, to say the least.

However, I wasn't expecting much from this book. How can it still disappoint me? Hmm. Maybe I deceived myself.

The things that annoyed me about this book (Yup, you can check, it's on my 'Abandoned' shelf- I read more than half of it then skipped to the end)

Forgot-her-name's husband has been arrested for murder, yet all she can talk about is the colour of her clothes and her nail polish. There is tooo much nail dropping, and I can understand that the author's background makes it impossible to avoid- but seriously? Which person would consider if she should stop at Neiman Marcus to buy a lace camisole to look sexy while interviewing a pervert suspect?

Well, even with her 'professional' silk pantsuit, she ends up with a dog collar around her neck

Man, the depths that this lady provoked me to. And her daughter is a brat. Honestly. If my kid was telling me 'I hate you' when her father had been arrested, I would certainly do something other than blame myself for it. I mean, how does that even make sense?

We seriously need books where heroines are NOT the only ones expected to be a fucking doormat. Nurturers or not.

The family in this book reminded me of a very artificial family, where everything is perfect on the outside, but all kinds of fucked up inside. Coming from a loving family, it irritated me to see *forgot-her-name* commenting that her kissing her son goodnight on the forehead didn't embarrass him. Seriously?

Woah. Writing and characters could do with a LOT of improvement. Still, debut book gets a pass. Her next one better be jolly better than this, is all I'm saying. Or else?

'Abandoned'. Without a qualm. ( )