From Publishers Weekly
Once again Isaacs proves a dab hand at rattling skeletons in the closets of Suburbia--here, murder and adultery are skewered with this author's typically savvy wit. In Long Island's tony Shore Haven, Rosie Meyers makes an unsettling discovery in her kitchen just after her 25th wedding anniversary bash: the body of her husband, peremptorily dispatched with a butcher's knife. The 40-something "suburban schoolteacher with a bit of a Brooklyn accent" fears--accurately, as matters turn out--that she will become the odds-on favorite for prime suspect, and goes on the lam to prove her innocence. With a heroine who gives new meaning to the word "feisty" (and a host of other smartly drawn characters), Isaacs shows herself in top form. Her barbs and witticisms garner laughs largely through a kind of recognition factor: she makes observations many of us might have thought, but lacked the verbal virtuosity to express. As if to reinforce the familiarity of her consistently on-target humor, she drops dead-on references to pop-culture icons--Dirty Harry movies, L. L. Bean apparel, etc. She has a field day lampooning upper-class mores (in Rosie's land of the privileged, a housekeeper might commit "some upper-class atrocity, like folding the napkins for morning coffee into rectangles instead of putting them in rings"), but also weaves into this thoroughly diverting caper unexpected moments of genuine tenderness and sly social commentary. A sure candidate for the bestseller lists. 150,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection; author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From School Library Journal
YA-A cleverly written, witty, sophisticated and down-to-earth novel. Rose Meyers, 47, is a high school English teacher who has two grown sons, an upscale home in an affluent New York City suburb, and friends. On the day after her 25th wedding anniversary party, her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger, more sophisticated woman. Waking up from a deep sleep, Rose goes to the kitchen and stumbles over Richie's body in the middle of the kitchen floor. After innocently touching the murder weapon, she discovers that her husband is dead, and she is subsequently charged with his murder. Before she can be arrested, she flees her home and goes into hiding to find the real killer. Readers learn about the Meyers' life, past and present, through clever flashbacks and quick, humorous dialogue. The novel is filled with believable characters, mostly believable situations, and mystery, plus friendship, trust, and honest relationships.Debbie Hyman, R.E. Lee High School, Springfield, VACopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Kirkus Reviews
Again, Isaacs's (Magic Hour, etc.) formulaic plot device is almost beside the point as she tickles readers' funny bones in her latest Long Island melodrama-cum-satire--this time featuring a middle-aged millionairess who's accused of her estranged husband's murder. ``After nearly a quarter of a century of marriage, Richie Meyers, my husband, told me to call him Rick,'' reports Rosie Meyers, a high-school English teacher whose husband struck it rich years before by cofounding a computer-research firm and thereby launching the two of them into the stratosphere of Long Island monied society. Had she not been so cheerfully enmeshed in her resolutely middle-class teaching career, Rosie adds, she might have seen the writing on the wall: Richie was in the midst of a midlife crisis that featured an affair with Data Associates's very young and very blond vice-president, Jessica Stevenson. Weeping (unrepentantly), Richie leaves Rosie shortly after their silver wedding anniversary, and Rosie suffers one long, miserable, solitary summer--until one night, woken from a Xanax-induced slumber, she stumbles across Richie on her kitchen floor, stabbed to death with one of her own carving knives. The police assume the spurned wife is the culprit, and Rosie is forced to flee to Manhattan to do her own investigating and prove them wrong. Along the way she learns some hard truths about her husband's secret life, and though the true killer's identity becomes clear far too early, Isaacs's ability to keep readers laughing through Rosie's darkest moments should prove cathartic for many among her loyal readers. Broad humor, ebulliently proffered. (First printing of 150,000; Literary Guild Dual Selection for September) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.


New York Daily News
"Biting and funny."


New York Times Book Review
"You gotta laugh...Susan Isaacs has always done awfully well in her entertaining fiction, and she's done it again in After All These Years."


Detroit Free Press
"Terrific."


Newsday
"Susan Isaacs should captivate all hearts."


Cosmopolitan
"Provides tears-down-your-face laughs, including barbed send-ups of the even richer neighbors and a sidesplitting funeral scene."


Chicago Tribune
"Isaacs is once again at the top of her satiric form in After All These Years."


Publishers Weekly
"Once again Isaacs proves a dab hand at rattling skeletons in the closets of Suburbia... skewered with...savvy wit."


Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Pure fun."


USA Today
"A mean, funny book."


St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"The razor-sharp wit of a Joan Rivers and the sexual relish of an Erica Jong."


Book Description
The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: Her nouveau riche husbandRichie is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA.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 on the lam into Manhattan, Rosie learns more about Richie than she ever wanted to know. And more about herself than she ever dreamed possible.


Download Description
E-book extra: "To the Mystery!," a speech to the Mystery Writers of America by Susan Isaacs.Another model marriage ends with a corpse in the kitchen, and a spouse on the run. People magazine: "Isaacs scores again with this relentlessly funny... entertaining, and imaginative mystery."


About the Author
Susan Isaacs is the author of eight novels including Red, White & Blue, Lily White, After All These Years, Compromising Positions, and Shining Through and one non-fiction title Brave Dames And Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen. She lives on Long Island with her husband.

ANNOTATION

Richie Meyers tells his wife Rosie he is leaving her for a younger woman. Then he turns up murdered. Naturally Rosie is the prime suspect. Her only hope lies in uncovering Richie's secret life -- and his killer -- among the Manhattan jet set. A bestseller for Isaacs.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Rosie Myers, high school English teacher, wife and mother, didn't exactly object when her husband Richie changed from an easy-going math teacher into the hotshot president of a multi-million-dollar corporation in Manhattan. Well, she did worry how living on a grand waterfront estate in Long Island might affect the family, but what could be bad about the good life? She finds out when Richie leaves her the morning after their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party - for a younger, prettier, and possibly smarter woman. Since then, Rosie's been living alone in the big house, grieving over her loss...and eating more chocolate chip ice cream than is necessary to sustain life. Late one night, on her way to the refrigerator, she trips over - Richie! Dead on the kitchen floor, a carving knife in his chest. True, there is no evidence that anyone besides Rosie and Richie were in the house. Admittedly, Rosie does have a motive. And the murder weapon came from her kitchen. So naturally the police think she's guilty. Rosie knows she has to save herself. Hours before she's to be arrested, she gives the police the slip and heads for New York City to find the real killer. What she discovers is that Richie, the husband she thought she knew, had been living a secret, high-style life as he tried to charm his way into the jet set. On the lam in Manhattan, Rosie summons guts and savvy she never knew she had. In her daring and devious quest for the killer, she brilliantly pieces together the clues to her freedom and meets some old friends along the way who show her to live again after all these years with the wrong man.

SYNOPSIS

E-book extra: "To the Mystery!," a speech to the Mystery Writers of America by Susan Isaacs.

Another model marriage ends with a corpse in the kitchen, and a spouse on the run. People magazine: "Isaacs scores again with this relentlessly funny... entertaining, and imaginative mystery."

FROM THE CRITICS

Chicago Tribune

Isaacs is once again at the top of her satiric form in After All These Years.

People

Isaac scores again with this relentlessly funny...entertaining and imaginative mystery.

New York Times Book Review

You gotta laugh...Susan Isaacs has always done awfully well in her entertaining fiction, and she's done it again in After All These Years.

Chicago Tribune

Isaacs is once again at the top of her satiric form in After All These Years.

Los Angeles Times Book Review