Joan Mackenzie reviews Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent

With an opening sentence like this - (My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it) – how could this not be addictive? It’s a very clever story about the disappearance of a drug addicted prostitute, the judge who used to visit her, his stay at home wife with the beautiful and well maintained garden and their gormless son – who turns out, ultimately, not to be as gormless as initially portrayed. But I don’t want to ruin it for you, The double entendre in the title is a very good clue about the structure of this story – where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.

With some lovely twists and turns, loads of very poor judgement, and the most unexpected relationships, this is clever, fun, and highly enjoyable right til the very end.

[alliecattlopez]

Thank you, just bought this book yesterday. Well, I going to start reading now, so that way, when I catch my flight to New Orleans, on Saturday, the flight will fly by. ( lol, no pun intended. )

[OnyxMoonSign]

SPOILER TAG!

I hated the ending. Nobody went to jail for the murder of Annie. What kind of message does that send? If you're rich and white you don't go to jail for murder? If the killer had been a minority he would have been hung from a tree by a white supremacy group while the police looked the other way.
And don't even get me started on the fact that Karen went back to her verbally, emotionally, and mentally abusive husband AND quit her modeling career AND became a drunk. WTH?

This must be some kind of trend because of the last 20 or so books I've read about 9 of them had a "white people get away with murder" type ending.

I'm going to read an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel. ALL the white people go to jail in an Ed McBain story.

[lenayashina]

This book was depressing to me. Also i don't understand why Lydia was prescribed phentermine by her psychiatrist. If its main purpose is to lessen appetite. She was never obese. And that's how she knew about those pills. The plot needed that, sure. Anyway reading this book felt heavy and unpleasant.