Susan Isaacs Livres

Depuis des années, Norman Torkelson séduit, escroque puis abandonne des femmes en mal d'amour. Sa méthode est simple : il appâte ses futures victimes par petite annonce et, après avoir gagné leur confiance, vide leur compte en banque. Tout va pour le mieux pour notre Don Juan jusqu'au jour où Bobette Frish, sa dernière conquête, est retrouvée assassinée. Aussitôt arrêté, Norman demande à Lee White d'assurer sa défense. Malgré les preuves qui l'accablent, Lee se demande si Norman ne cherche pas à protéger le véritable coupable et décide de mener sa propre enquête. Ce qu'elle découvre alors va non seulement bouleverser à jamais son existence mais l'amener à remonter le cours du temps...

Un soir d'Halloween, Courtney Logan, paisible mère de famille, disparaît mystérieusement de sa maison de Long Island... Jusqu'à ce jour de printemps où le jardinier retrouve son cadavre dans la piscine, deux balles en pleine tête ! La police suspecte son mari, Greg Logan. Seule Judith Singer, professeur d'histoire en mal d'action, ne croit pas en sa culpabilité. Certes, elle ne connaît pas Greg, mais son intuition ne la trompe jamais. Jadis, elle a déjà résolu une énigme de ce genre ; ce fut une aventure très excitante. Alors, c'est décidé, Judith mènera l'enquête et interrogera tout l'entourage des Logan. De Wall Street à SunValley, le fantôme de Courtney risque de l'entraîner plus loin qu'elle ne l'aurait imaginé...

Fate can be benevolent. Or incredibly cruel. That's what Nick and Jane will learn... Just take their relationship. Nick is stunningly handsome, the blue-eyed scion of a blue-blood New York family. Rich, talented, confident, he will become the world's most famous movie star. Jane is delightfully funny, a dark-skinned, dark-haired, half-Jewish, half-German daughter of the Midwest. Smart, gifted, loving, she will become famous in her own right as well... From the time they first meet in their Social and Intellectual History of the U.S. course at Brown University, it's love at first sight. Coming together from two very different worlds, they will cast off adversity and disapproval to forge a life filled with work, love, and children. But fame and success come at a high price--their marriage. Just when it seems the promise of their love might be renewed, an accident leaves Jane hovering between life and death. Now, it's not only their union that might not survive, but Jane too...Almost Paradise is vintage Susan Isaacs, a witty, poignant, and engrossing tale of a man, a woman, and a passion wondrous, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.

Long Island housewife Judith Singer is incredibly bored. So when a local dentist is found murdered and the police suspect her neighbor, that's all the excuse Judith needs to jump in and begin her own investigation. In between school runs and making dinner, she is drawn deeper into the case-and closer to the police detective in charge.

The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: her nouveau riche husband, Richie, is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA. So, when he's found murdered in their exquisitely appointed kitchen, no one is surprised to find Rosie's prints all over the weapon. The suburban English teacher is the prime suspect -- the police's only suspect. And she knows she'll spend the rest of her life in the prison library unless she can unmask the real killer. Going into Manhattan on the lam, Rosie learns more about Richie than she ever wanted to know. And more about herself than she ever dreamed possible.

Amy was barely born with a spoon in her mouth let alone a silver one. Her mother abandoned her before her first birthday and her father, a small-time crook, was in jail more time than he was out. Raised by her flaky and slightly felonious grandmother, Amy worked ahrd and managed to get scholarships to boarding schools, then Harvard, then the Columbia School of Journalism. But now- a few years into her stint as a reporter for a prestigious magazine- she doesn't know who she is or how to connect with the world. Seeking answers, she sets out to find the mother she never knew... and maybe a place to belong.

Fans of New York Times Bestselling author Susan Isaacs’ signature satire won’t be disappointed with this new edition of her classic tale of family, sex and New York politics Marcia Green is a sophisticated, witty, successful New Yorker, a whiz of a political speech writer, a woman who finds a smoke-filled room more intoxicating than a magnum of champagne. Her private life is a little less bubbly. She has a passionate but not very promising live-in relationship with her boss’s dashing chief of staff, Jerry Morrissey. He offers her only a good time- but what a time! Can Marcia resist when a new man arrives on the scene, a man who is exactly the sort her family wants her to marry- bright, kind, attractive, wealthy, and charming- in short, too good to be real?

In this whip-smart suburban mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs, a retired FBI agent turned Long Island housewife taps into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets.

Former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases - before the crime's sole survivor is killed.

Movie producer Sy Spencer -- one of the premier summer residents of the Hamptons, Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort for everyone who is anyone -- has hosted his last power clambake, thanks to whoever shot him dead beside his oceanfront pool. Heading the investigation is Hamptons native Steve Brady. His prime suspect is Sy's ex-wife Bonnie, a strangely appealing and energetic woman both in and out of bed. As the case against Bonnie builds, so does Brady's obsession with her. Before long, he's laying the case and his career on the line for her, ignoring all the rules, all the evidence, and all common sense