Long Time No See audiobook

I love a good mystery with wonderful twists. And even though the reader finds out who the villian is before the end of the book, it is still every bit as enjoyable to read. Susan Isaacs brought back Judith Singer 20 years after she first introduced her in Compromising Positions, and she did a brilliant job in my opinion. Great read...would highly recommend!

"Judith Singer is back! After twenty years, Susan Isaacs brings us back the heroine from Compromising Positions, her first and most beloved novel..."And the most exciting part of that back cover marketing for me? There is actually another novel with Judith that I can read cover-to-cover and LOVE. This novel is just amazing. The story is so complex, yet Judith is so simple. And perfect. And messed up. Isaacs is a genius. Her descriptions of each character are beautiful and her writing is different from anything I've read. The closest I can come is another author I love, Maria Semple. She describes the characters, large or small parts, in a way that makes my mouth water and gives me chills because it's just so good and so different: "She had the voice of a more imposing woman, the contralto the Statue of Liberty would have if she could speak..." "...with lackluster eyes and nostrils the diameter of the average garden hose, she wasn't particularly pretty..." "In looks, she was the picture of good-natured simplicity, reminding me of the Strawberry Shortcake doll my daughter used to have...pinchable, fat cheeks and ridiculously red hair." "...her deltoids rising, to say nothing of her triceps and biceps brachii. She was such a perfect specimen that, except for the covering of ehr dark brown skin, she might be the model for one of those charts of striated muscle the teacher pulls down in high-school biology."If you, yourself, don't find genius there, read another book. You'll be missing out on this, complicated story-lines amazing enough that you'll think SHE did it, and self-depricating humor that will make you LOVE Judith Singer, make you wish YOU were her best friend, not Nancy. Usually I am in to some sex - not here; some major gore - not here; something you wouldn't let your teenager pick up - not here. This is just pure good. I love it. LOVE it! 5 Stars and then some.

I read Long Time No See soon after Compromising Positions; however, the sequel is set 15 years after the murder (view spoiler)[and affair (hide spoiler)] central to the first novel. By now, Judith Singer is no longer a desperate Long Island housewife; instead, she’s an adjunct professor at a small college and widowed. Daughter Kate has become a lawyer, and son Joey has grown from a preschooler into a film critic of sorts. But Judith’s not any more fulfilled than she was earlier. She’s just sleepwalking through life.Until. Until a neighbor, the perky, perfectionist Courtney Logan, disappears just after trick-or-treating on Halloween 1999. Courtney tells the Austrian au pair that she’s off to pick up apples at the Grand Union … and is not seen again. Just as she had so many years ago, Judith is tantalized by this mystery. What became of this financier-turned-stay-at-home supermom? So many facets of the mystery don’t make sense, but Judith begins sleuthing once more. And readers will be so, so glad that she does. And will she cross paths with policeman Nelson Sharpe? We can only hope! I can’t recommend this sequel enough: No sophomore slump here! Author Susan Isaacs has crafted a sequel as suspenseful a page-turner as the first in the series. Here’s to many more!

Funny and good

Isaacs is still highly entertainingI adore having my two favorite genres in one novel: mystery and humor. It doesn't happen very often, but I was delighted to find this book. I read the first Judith Singer novel right after it came out in paperback on a vacation and was glad I took a second book as I read Compromising Positions in mere hours. This Judith Singer novel was as entertaining as the first. The characters have aged well. It is not too often that I find such a literate, laugh-out-loud mystery. Write some more, Susan Isaacs!

I had read her 1987 mystery novel Compromising Positions back in the early 1990s, I think, and enjoyed it (plus the movie with Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia). Somehow I just recently discovered this 2002 sequel where now-widow-with-grown-children Judith Singer gets caught up in another Long Island murder mystery and also runs into old flame Police Detective Nelson Sharpe. I just find her character likeable and funny, and the unraveling of the mystery entertaining. Not highbrow literature but a good curl up on the sofa read.

20 years after "Compromising Positions", Susan Isaacs brings back Judith Singer in a very well plotted story, reuniting Judith, now widowed, with her lover, Nelson Sharpe. Judith gets involved in defending a man the police think murdered his wife. Most of the story takes place on the North Shore of Nassau County, Long Island, though there are forays into Manhattan and Sun Mountain, Idaho. Clothing by all the big names in fashion is well represented in the wardrobes of the characters. Jewelry, well-described, is just as likely to be found on men. Definitely recommended.

This book was excellent because the writing was excellent. It really painted a picture, and the descriptions were sophisticated. I laughed out loud at Judith's dry humour several times. I was not the biggest fan of the ending, but the writing style and likeable main character kept me reading. Judith (the main character) reminds me a lot of Kinsey Millhone, from the Sue Grafton series. Smart and sarcastic and independent. An enjoyable read!

23/40 Seguito di un libro“Chi non muore si rivede” di Susan IsaacsVent’anni dopo la sua prima indagine Judith, ormai vedova, si coinvolge in una nuova inchiesta, che la porterà a riallacciare i rapporti con il poliziotto che le aveva sconvolto la vita.Mi è piaciuto molto, il movente viene fuori poco a poco e non è scontato, la personalità della vittima viene scandagliata con interviste che la mettono sotto luci diverse.Grazie a Mauro per il regalo!

Not my usual choice for reading material; it is now.Captured my attention and held it. Maybe not as well as Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, but "close enough for government work". The story line unrolls comfortably. Well paced. The characters are intriguing and the mystery remains a mystery until the end.

A return to the main characters from her first book, Compromising Positions. When a beautiful young mom disappears from her expensive LI home Judith Singer is tempted to investigate. When the Jewish-mafia father in law asks for help, she's in- and back in touch with former lover Nelson Sharpe of the police department. Little Courtney was more than she appeared to be- she done it!

This is really book 2It is much better to read this after Compromising Positions. I read compromising Positions in the 1970's when it first came out. I am now rereading Susan Isaacs and enjoying them again. I enjoy her witty observations and descriptions of her characters and their surroundings.

Gone too long. When I was but a wee lass I fell in love with Susan Isaacs. Her book ‘Comproming Positions’ was all I talked about for weeks. many books and years have passed and 2 days ago I found Judith Singer (and Susan Isaacs) again. And she is better than ever. Clever dialogue and interesting plot. Please read this serie!!! It’s good to make new friends

Every time I read a book by Susan Isaacs I ask myself why I haven't read everything she's written yet. This was well-written, full of wry humor, a good mystery, a little romance and great characters. A really fun read. I need her to write more.

Just another fabulous Susan Isaacs novel! As with every book of hers I've read, I found the characters intriguing and believable, and the plot had very surprising twists and turns that kept me intrigued.