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Goodnight Nobody is bestselling author Jennifer Weiner's attempt at writing a mystery, with a healthy dose of the author's chick lit sensibilities thrown in for good measure. While this Desperate Housewives meets Sex in the City murder mystery won't make readers shake in their Manolo Blahniks, it will provide the obligatory humor and compassion to which fans of Weiner's Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, and Little Earthquakes have grown accustomed.

Kate Klein is a feisty, charmingly insecure Connecticut housewife who trades in a life of late-night karaoke sing-a-longs and West Village brunches with her best friend Janie for a world of mini-vans and Mommy and Me pilates classes. Life in Upchurch, Connecticut, heats up when Kate discovers picture-perfect wife and mother Kitty Cavanaugh dead on the pickled maple hardwood floor of her recently remodeled kitchen. A former chronicler of celebrity gossip, Kate takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of Kitty's murder and the disappearance of Lexi Hagen-Holdt, another Upchurch supermom. Along the way, the mysteries and disappointments in Kate's personal life begin to unravel, including her marriage to the kind-yet-uptight Ben, and her unresolved crush on Evan McKenna, a former neighbor with whom a one-night tryst ended in disaster. Thrown in for comic relief, and perhaps to show the depth of Weiner's talents as a writer, are Kate's twin boys and adorably sophisticated 5-year old daughter Sophie ("Sophie was sitting on the toilet, applying lipstick and waiting her turn...").

Goodnight Nobody is chock full of plot twists and turns which can be overwhelming and superfluous. However, Weiner's charm and grace are usually enough to rescue readers from these moments of confusion, and reaffirm our commitment to this endearing contemporary voice. --Gisele Toueg

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How exciting to have received this book from my wish list unexpectedly! Thanks so much for your kindness. I will put this on my special "keep it moving" shelf and will get to it and move it on as soon as possible.

Thanks again!

I started this yesterday and finished it tonight. My first experience with this author was when I read In Her Shoes. I was not impressed with that at all, but someone on my local BXing yahoo group suggested that I not give up on her and that I should try Goodnight Nobody. I put it on my wish list and then one day...yesterday, it magically appeared in my mailbox.

I loved this book. It wasn't at all what I expected (I didn't read the synopsis or anything before I read it). I expected typical chick-lit. This is really not what I'd call chick-lit. It's a mystery with mostly female characters.

There were tons of surprises and plot twists that I didn't see coming.

I thought at times that Kate should have been slapped. I mean, if anyone ever puts a threatening note on my car, it won't take any more convincing to get me to stop whatever it is they want me to stop!

I'm going to meet up with some Central AR bookcrossers tomorrow and hopefully drop this in my double crossing bookbox.

Thanks for sharing this!

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Stuck this in the box today when I met up with unknowncritic and etherea.

Taken from the Double Crossing Book Box.

I'm passing this on to a friend who is a fan of this author.