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I thoroughly enjoyed Suburban Dicks and this oen is even better. Alice is a great character and the solid plot is both entertaining and full of suspence.
It kept me hooked and entertained, liked the solution.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

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Book two in the series, and hopefully there will be many more. The Self Made Widow continues the adventures of mismatched investigators Andie and Kenny, roughly a year on from Suburban Dicks. One of Andie's friends has just become a widow and Andie starts to suspect that foul play was involved. As in the first book, Andie's relationship with her five children is a major part of the humour, (boy they better get this right in the television series). Great crime, great humour, great characters.
3.5 stars.

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Top notch! Fabulous!

Even wilder than the Suburban Dicks, The Self-made widow was simply unputdownable!
A delicious murder mystery full of wacky twists and turns, sparkling dialogues and an unforgettable cast of exquisitely drawn weirdos!

A highly recommended dose of laughter that deserves to be discovered and enjoyed without any moderation whatsoever!

Many thanks to Titan Books and Netgalley for this terrific ARC!

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Love, love, love this book. I had a million chores and ignored them all!

Following on, our intrepid duo are still dealing with the fallout of the first book. But now they have success shining it’s beacon and all the stresses that brings. So when family friend Derek Goode dies, Andie doubts her instincts because surely her friend Molly Goode can’t have killed her husband knowing what she knows about Andie’s detective skills. There are some wonderfully contorted and extremely clever plot twists, along with the wise cracking sense of humour that made the first book a five star read.
I was so happy to see that the tv rights have been bought, I really hope that they do it justice because this author and these books are fantastic! Roll on book three.

I sincerely apologise for the incorrect review that was left initially.

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I would like to thank Netgalley and Titan Books for an advance copy of The Self-Made Widow, the second novel to feature amateur detective Andrea Stern and journalist Kenny Lee, set in West Windsor, New Jersey.

Andie has form as an investigator and a desire for the truth, so when Derek Goode, husband of her friend, Molly, dies of a sudden heart attack she is suspicious. Meanwhile Kenny Lee has received an anonymous call saying that Molly killed Derek. Andie and Kenny are soon investigating a case that may come closer to home than she thinks.

I don’t think that I would have finished The Self-Made Widow if I hadn’t committed to reading it. I didn’t find it funny, as it is advertised to be, and I didn’t identify with the characters and their first world problems.

The plot is fairly convoluted with Andie trying to prove a murder and uncovering other crimes along the way. The narrative is split between her point of view and Kenny’s as he works the case from different angles in Manhattan, where he is working on a documentary. It makes the story rather piecemeal.

It is a character driven novel so there’s lots of analysis about motivation and character flaws, both from the characters and the author. I didn’t like either Andie or Kenny, both are insecure and needy. I didn’t see much of Andie’s famed insight, more an arrogance that what she thinks must be right and Kenny is simply ungrateful and annoying.

The Self-Made Widow is not for me.

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