Susan Isaacs

Susan Isaacs is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of literary fiction and mysteries including the bestselling book to Compromising Positions, which was adapted into a hit film. 

Books By Susan Isaacs

By Susan Isaacs

A Long Island housewife investigates the murder of a local dentist in Isaac's classic mystery of the dark side of suburbia.

Though she can't admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored.  Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner.  Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their lLong Island split-level is a ho-hum affair, but when a local dentist is murdered in his office, her curiosity gets the better of her.

Judy soon learns that Dr. Fleckstein's private life wasn't as immaculate as his smile, and anyone in town might be the murderer.  And when her neightbor becomes the chief suspect, Judity must find the real killer or risk losing her only friend in all of suburbia. 

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the author's personal collection. 

  • The New York Times

    “Wonderfully funny, deliciously mean.”

  • The Washington Post

    “Clever, deft…and very funny.”

  • Cosmopolitan

    “Wickedly subversive wit…Great fun.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  • Biography

    • Susan Isaacs (b. 1943) is a New York Times bestselling author of mysteries and literary fiction. Born in Brooklyn, she worked in New York politics before writing her first mystery, Compromising Positions, in 1976. A runaway success, this story of a housewife-turned-detective was adapted into a film starring Susan Sarandon and Raúl Juliá. 

      The former president of the Mystery Writers of America, Isaacs is a winner of the John Steinbeck Award, the Marymount Manhattan Writing Center Award, and the Writers for Writers Award. She lives and works on Long Island. 
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