Jazz is redeemed by Lee’s father, who takes the handsome young man into the increasingly prosperous fur business. He’s a lawyer, too, with no taste for it. A cheerful companion and ardent lover, he seems perfect.īut while Lee achieves success in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, her husband flounders professionally. His purpose seems to be to lighten Lee’s load. Coming from many generations of old money, he is entirely comfortable in his own skin. Is Lee’s client, love-’em-and-leave-’em conman Norman Torkelson, guilty? Or was Bobette strangled by Norman’s awesomely beautiful girlfriend, Mary Dean, out of jealousy?Ī fairy tale beginning is in the works when Lee near-miraculously winds up marrying the boy next door, Jazz Taylor. Simpson for murder and Mercedes Ruehl in The Fisher King) doesn’t know who to suspect in the murder of Bobette Frisch, a squat middle-aged businesswoman. Likable feminist Lee (a combination of Marcia Clark prosecuting O.J. It also enables Isaacs to sustain interest in a cut-and-dried murder case that would have made for slim pickings if described in consecutive chapters. It is an effective technique, spurring the reader onward when a chapter ends on a particularly tense and unresolved note. This tantalizing read alternates first-person chapters in the voice of Lily, a former student radical turned criminal defense lawyer, with chapters from an omniscient third-person perspective. Susan Isaacs, the accomplished author of Compromising Positions and Shining Through, is in fine form telling the story of Lily, her peculiar childhood and family, and her circuitous route to happiness in middle age. If you’re heading for a beach vacation, pack the juicy comic novel Lily White along with the sunscreen.
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