I read most of Susan Isaacs' subsequent books, most of which I enjoyed a great deal. Maybe it would not seem that original now, but I loved it at the time. This was a very funny book, and I'd be interested to know if it was the first of the genre of "wisecracking, domestic, comic mystery" as one blurb has it. When a local dentist and "stud" is found murdered, Judith's life takes on a new purpose as she determines to solve the crime - not least when she discovers that several of her women friends (supposedly happily married mothers) have been captured photographically by the dead man - in the compromising positions of the title. The plot concerns a suburban housewife, Judith, who is bored and stifled by the domestic grind. Published in 1985, almost 10 years before the first Stephanie Plum book, the novel was like a breath of fresh air, unlike anything I had read before. Before there was Janet Evanovich or Desperate Housewives there was Susan Isaacs, an author I discovered quite by chance when I noticed a then-just-published bright yellow Penguin paperback with the intriguing title of Compromising Positions.
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