Poison Pen by Jean Copeland

Author:Jean Copeland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635558500
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2021-07-01T19:11:21+00:00

The Winding Road: Meredith Hodges is a new author…and it’s quickly apparent. However, before I begin the word carnage, I will say that this newbie knows her way around a lesbian love scene. For sure. Now plot and characterization? Let’s just say she needs a refresher course at the community college where this unfortunate soul must’ve learned how to write fiction. The story’s mains are Lila Braddock, a high-priced defense attorney, and Philomena DiRuvo-Kerns, an Italian heiress she defends when she’s “wrongfully” accused of murdering her philandering, fracking, executive husband, Frederick Doyle Kerns. SPOILER ALERT: Lila and Philomena fall in love, despite the screaming lack of professional ethics on Lila’s part. What a shock! The novel opens with a court scene in which DiRuvo-Kerns is found not guilty to the gasps, horror, and shock of a packed courtroom. (Yawn). The story then takes off with Lila and Philomena supposedly set to live happily ever after until an anonymous letter arrives at Lila’s house suggesting that she’d helped a notorious black widow get away with murder. Oooh, what’s not to love about a greedy, bitchy lawyer who gets off criminals in court and in bed?

That’s when the road gets real winding, so winding that I needed a Dramamine to get through Chapter Five! Yes, lots of twists and turns in this one, if you like the feeling of being on a carnival ride operated by an alcoholic with vertigo.

Needless to say, the sketchier and more dangerous Philomena becomes, the more in love with her Lila falls. Oy. Delusional, party of one? Then Lila takes a secret trip to Bari, Italy, where the letter originated, to try to prove to herself the lying, scheming, conniving, murderous diva she’s in love with isn’t all or any of those things. And that she wouldn’t soon be her next victim. But by the end of the second third, I would’ve gladly done Philomena the favor of murdering Lila for her.

I’ll leave the rest of the plot to your imagination, especially if you like to read while you’re high as a kite. As for me, if The Winding Road had a cliff at the end of it, I’d drive off it rather than read this convoluted story again.

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