THE SELF-MADE WIDOW

Emily Woo Zeller's lovely voice and her dramatic and comic acting skills are well deployed in this entertaining tale of murder in suburbia. Andie Stern, who really should have pursued her career as an FBI profiler instead of having five children much too young, suspects that the frighteningly capable Molly Goode, doyenne of Andie's own cohort of yoga moms, has engineered her own widowhood. But how? And why? The "how" is impressively tricky. Andie reassembles her team of oddball sidekicks (this is the second book in a series) and pursues the tangled answers without fear or favor, even when the "why" seems likely to scorch Andie's own slightly larcenous husband. Nicieza's principal characters are original and weirdly charming, and the whole thing is great fun. B.G. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2022]