#23

#23 is After All These Years by Susan Isaacs.  I didn't like it as well as I liked Compromising Positions, but it was still a good mystery.  A little fantasy...really, she's on the lam and has not one, but two romantic encounters...but the thing that really jaded me was that she had a fling with a former student who was her son's age. {I guess things in 1993 were a little less 'sexual predator' than they are now}  The characters were pretty stereotypical of the rich and well-to-do.  To be honest I was rushed to finish it because I got the dreaded email that my digital library loan was about to end.  I may try another Susan Isaacs...we'll see.

Susan does have a great vocabulary tho:

p 130:  pejorative

expressing contempt or disapproval

p172:  skulduggery

underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery

quote:
p379:  But had God been in a breezier mood when he chiseled Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery than when he forbade murder?  {Oh, how that puts sin in perspective!}