Little is what it seems to be in a leafy Savannah neighborhood as members of an afternoon cocktail and dog walking club mourn a neighbor’s death. Jealousies surface when friends vie for the widower running for mayor. An old woman with an infamous uncle plots to avenge a wrong. Memories haunt a once successful children’s writer. And a model has won the trip of a lifetime.
But a killer lurks and secrets unfold, as does a web of deceit. Is anyone really who he or she seems to be? A mysterious South American, a young Italian count, and a charitable nephew add suspicion and intrigue, as do an enigmatic organization linked to organized crime, a handsome firefighter, and three widows with hidden agendas. What’s a retired accountant’s secret, and why did a former showgirl really have plastic surgery?
The plot thickens, the Georgia temperature rises, and someone is destined for an early unmarked grave. The truth contorts to a climax that leaves readers breathless.
Okay, so I’m a bit ambivelent about the Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club guys. The last third of the book was quite interesting and made me glad I had continued to read it, because I was seriously considering giving up on it.
It started off really good. The prologue really sucked you in. Then all of a sudden it was like I was in an entirely different book. About three kinda bitchy women who drink cocktails in the park while their dogs play and poop. So that was okay because, well, the title of the book implies a dog walking club, but I figured, the author is going to set the scene and let us know who the players are, then we’ll find out who gets dead. Didn’t happen. Insert sad face. Instead we get some random memory lane travelling which winds up being connected to the ‘people-getting-dead’ part of the plot, but it takes forever for us to figure learn that. It’s also kinda of weird and historically inaccurate, but I’ll discuss that later.
Despite the feeling that I was been taken for a walk for most of the story, this wasn’t an awful book. The last third redeemed the book and gave it an extra star to give it a three star rating, as opposed to a 2 star rating.
Full review here.
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