New York Times Literary Treat of the Week.....

Isaacs, Susan. As Husbands Go.

The amount of gossip bouncing around Shorehaven, Long Island about the Gersten family is enough to challenge the winds coming off the Sound! Dr. Jonah Gersten, an immensely successful Park Avenue plastic surgeon, has been found stabbed in a prostitute's apartment. It is an open-and-shut case to seemingly everybody except Jonah's wife Susie, mother of their triplet sons and financially able to run a floral design business as a hobby. To Susie, Jonah was so moral he would not pursue a back door out of jury duty nor would he pay for sex with a woman who "looked like a ewe with a blond wig." To her mother-in-law, Susie put too much pressure on Jonah to maintain a lavish lifestyle. In her defense comes Susie's estranged grandmother Ethel, the two pairing up to find the real killer. Thus you have a quirky suburban whodunit laced with Isaacs's gift of creating characters one finds delightful to encounter.

Also by Susan Isaacs at Merrick Library:

Any Place I Hang My Hat
Lily White
Long Time No See
Past Perfect
Red, White and Blue

Reviewed by librarian, Bob.