Other People's Skeletons by Julie Smith Review

Title: Other People's Skeletons
Series: The Rebecca Schwartz Series, Book 5
Author: Julie Smith
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 209
Price: $2.99 or FREE for Prime Members
Rating: 5 out 5 stars

Book Synposis:

Rebecca Schwartz, “Jewish feminist lawyer,” as she’s fond of saying, thought she knew her best friend--and her boy friend. Not to mention her family. But everything’s about to change.

Secrets spill out of these pages like hornets out of a nest, each with its own distinct sting, as author Smith weaves a thrill-packed and complicated mystery that’s as much about how little we know about our nearest and dearest as it is about whodunit.

Rebecca’s shocked when Chris Nicholson, her glamorous law partner, is arrested for murder--but not nearly so shocked as when she discovers Chris can’t come up with an alibi. What she was doing, Chris says, involves a secret so damaging she’d be drummed out of San Francisco legal circles if anyone knew. All she’ll say is what her secret isn’t--crime, drugs, sex, alcohol, addiction, illness (mental or otherwise), or an eating disorder. So what’s left? Sure enough, when Rebecca uncovers it, her world tilts on its axis—and continues to list, ever more dangerously, as the story picks up speed and this formerly rational lawyer finds her worldview threatened by things she never knew existed. At least not in her circle! And Chris is far from the only one with a skeleton in her closet.

The murdered man, Jason McKendrick, was a much-loved columnist, a carefree bachelor with a million glamorous women, who also happened to have a very special friend who slept on a filthy mattress in his apartment. As Rebecca and Chris peel back the layers of Jason’s complicated world, they find he was leading not just a double life, but maybe many more. Only one person knows what made him tick. But can she stay alive long enough to tell his story?


Review:

Other People's Skeletons is the type of book you want to curl up with in a cozy chair. It's hard to put down and loaded with twists and turns. I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys cozy mysteries. I loved the tension between two exes working together to solve a case and a friend finding out secrets that had been hidden for so long. It's a great read, especially for the cool fall weather.