I was browsing in the Smith Library last week and they have, on a large table, just as you enter the main room, new, recommended titles. So, I picked up THE OTHER WOMAN, read about the author, who won all kinds of awards, checked it out and what a mistake. I really disliked it, finished it out of spite, a kind of punishment for staying with it so long. So much for recommendations.
It follows disgraced TV reporter Jane Ryland, her relationship with 'hot' detective Jake Brogan, and their attempts to unravel the murders of four females (is it a serial killer), during, what else, a heavily contested Senatorial race in Massachusetts. Governor Lassiter is running for the Senate seat and unbeknowst to him, his estranged daughter and son, who he has not seen nor heard of in years, are planning pay back for his years of neglect. Wow. And the son's ex girl friend, probably a psychopath, is also planning to do the Governor in, to win back the son. Neither of the three are aware of what the others are planning and this has little to do with the first three murders until the son 'accidentally on purpose' kills his ex girl friend when he discovers she is hoping to slander his father, losing him the race. Got it? Needless to say, Ryland and Brogan are in the thick of things, end up solving the murders, getting Ryan her TV job back (she doesn't want it back because she likes just being a newspaper reporter), and the Governor reconciles with his daughter. Far fetched, poorly written, choppy, don't read it.
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