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It’s not a world I’m used to, that’s for sure. Priscilla and Gordon live in Greenwich, with a maid, and a house where no 'outdoor' shoes are allowed. Priscilla runs a book group, a group that reads only mysteries, a group where women with children are not allowed. I think Priscilla never got over being the “alpha” in high school. There are four other women in the group right now, all married. The husbands seem to socialize with the other husbands because the wives have made all the arrangements; there is no sense that any of these men would seek each other out. When Priscilla and Sofie find Julia hanging in her front yard, very dead, the obvious suspect is Alex, Julia’s husband. His reactions, right off the bat, are very odd. Then there’s the small matter that his first, very wealthy, wife committed suicide . . . or maybe not. One of the detectives remembers him, and is convinced that Alex is trying to get away with murder again. The members of the book group, for reasons diverse and believable, decide to try their hand at solving the murder. Sofie, in particular, wants to know the truth; the other women want to prove Alex guilty. Kate Morgenroth complicates the matter with affairs, almost affairs, suspected affairs, divorces, new romances, and plenty of innuendoes about all and sundry. Nobody’s marriage is what it seems to be on the surface – not that that’s particularly unusual, even in middle-class lives. One of the few aspects of THEY DID IT WITH LOVE that struck me as unbelievable was the willingness of the detectives to let these women investigate this murder, much less investigate the murder of one of their own, almost certainly by one of their own. Sofie, in particular, is knowingly placed in situations of high risk. While the ending is definitely on the outer edges of unlikelihood, it isn’t really totally improbable, given the cast of characters. Morgenroth knows how to build characters and put them in situations that just might happen. Personally, most of these people are not people I’d like to hang out with, but it was definitely fun to read about them.
Reviewed by P. J. Coldren, October 2007
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