Long Time No See

Written by Susan Isaacs

Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

She's back! After more than two decades, Judith Singer, the heroine of Compromising Positions, returns in a rollicking new novel sure to delight Susan Isaacs's millions of readers

Some twenty years after Compromising Positions, Judith Singer again gets involved in murder and mayhem. But her life has changed. She now has her doctorate in history. Her workaday hours are spent at St. Elizabeth’s College, mostly squandered in history department shriek-fests. She is also a widow. Her husband Bob died one half-day after triumphantly finishing the New York City Marathon in four hours and twelve minutes. And although twenty years have passed without seeing him, she still cannot get her former lover, Nelson Sharpe of the Nassau County Police Department, out of her system.

With Courtney Logan’s dramatic disappearance, all eyes turn instantly toward her husband, Greg Logan, son of Long Island mobster Philip “Fancy Phil” Lowenstein. But since there is no body, there is no arrest. Then, in the less-than-merry month of May, Judith comes home from work, turns on the radio, and hears the Logans’ pool man telling a reporter that he opened the pool and found . . . a raccoon? Not quite. The woman in the pool turns out to be Courtney, and now it’s officially homicide. And Judith comes alive! She offers her services to the police’s chief suspect, Greg Logan, but he shows her the door, thinking her just another neighborhood nut. But his father isn’t so sure: Fancy Phil may have other plans for her.

Long Time No See is Susan Isaacs at her wickedly observant best. With razor-sharp wit and an irresistible mystery, she brings us back in touch with an engaging, endearing and irreverent heroine we haven’t seen in far too long.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Nov 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9780060893316

Susan Isaacs

Susan Isaacs is the bestselling author of eleven novels, two screenplays, and one work of nonfiction. She lives on Long Island.

Reviews for Long Time No See

[smallwonder56_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Wonderful characters, witty and skillful writing, great story. A little mystery, a little romance. Loved the book!

[debavp · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

While it has been a few years since I read Compromising Positions, and this was the sequel that was twenty years in the making, I don't feel this was anywhere near the quality of the original. The main character has become a combination of whiny, late middle-age bimbo (she wasn't like that in her thirties) and the love interest doesn't appear to have changed (from the mental aspect) in all that time. The whodunit aspect was quite intriguing up to the midway point where it bcame predictable and plodding. Don't get me wrong, there are some interesting characters and some quick, if a bit biting, wit bandied about, enough to get you through the book.

[emigre_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love Susan Issacs! Can't believe I've never read her before. She managed to write a whodunit book that's not creepy or grotesque. Sometimes I'm reading it not even caring who was the murderer, as long as I got to read more about the crazy and funny characters. Even though the protagonist, Judith Singer, committed adultery, Isaacs made me unwilling to judge her too harshly. Judith's neurotic musings and one-liners kept the book at a brisk pace and made it such a good lunchtime read. Must get more of her books.