I skimmed a lot of this - I won't bore you with the reason, but it is the second time I have read it. Kathy's writing can sparkle and shine and she is extremely clever and funny. However, I didn't enjoy the endlessly graphic sex and I think I am a little over the "I do everything and my husband does nothing" lament.
The story is basically about three friends - one (Jasmine) is married to an inhumanly humane doctor who rushes around the world helping people; one (the narrator Cassie) is married to a slob, gorgeous though he is; and one is married to a man who is happy to be the baby of the household. The book starts with Jas in jail for murdering her husband. The rest of the book is Cassie's recounting of how it happened that Jas got into that predicament.
It is a light read, and enjoyable in parts - but I think I need to Lette myself read some other things!

Very clever and hilarious. I wish I had the sense of humour and the skill to write or to talk like this. I wonder how much time Lette spends on writing her next pun. She really is very funny.
*spoiler* The ending was shocking, even though anyone could see it coming. It makes you think, how far would I go for revenge? Murder, like Jazz, theft like Hannah, or more in the line of Cassie's revenge, ie an eye for an eye? ( )

Jazz Jardine has been arrested for the suspected murder of her husband, internationally famous surgeon, humanitarian and World Health Organisation expert, Dr. David Studlands. Her friends, teacher and mother-of-two Cassie O'Carroll and the fabulously wealthy and childless Hannah Wolfe, begin an investigation that tests their own marriages. The author, co-author of the now famous Puberty Blues, writes in an almost slapstick comedy style, stringing together quip after quip and joke after joke, almost in the manner of a standup comedian. The book could perhaps fit the classification of chick-lit mystery. It is spiced throughout with sexy jokes, and, I'm no prude, but this just isn't my style. Had it not been the fact that I'm reading it for my face-2-face group, I wouldn't have finished it. Another thing that goaded me to the finish was the fact that "the Studz" supposedly disappeared while swimming at Cape Catastrophe on my very own South Australian coastline. It appears from a list at the front of the book that there are another 8 in similar vein waiting for me to borrow/buy them - but I won't be. If I had to think of books in a similar vein there would be Sarah Strohmeyer's "Bubbles" series, which I can just read. If you like them, you'll probably like this - but I don't guarantee it. ( )

Wickedly funny, insightful and clever.

This book opens with the news that Jazz has been accused of killing her husband and the story is supposedly told by Cassie one of three friends. Jazz's husband is a philanderer, Cassie is a teacher, mother of two and frustrated with her husband and Hannah is childless and her husband is living off her. How they deal with their respective lives and learn to cope or not is the focus of the story, with a number of twists and turns. It was very readable and quite a quick read that kept me going! ( )