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Recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his friends face new challenges when an Al-Anon sponsee becomes the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend’s murder.

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Recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his friends face new challenges when an Al-Anon sponsee becomes the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend’s murder.

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In this sequel to Zelvin's 2008 debut, Death Will Get You Sober, the psychotherapist author fails to match the empathetic portrait of her recovering alcoholic hero, reluctant sleuth Bruce Kohler, with a captivating whodunit. New Yorker Kohler, who's been sober for almost 10 months, gets dragged into a murder investigation after drug dealer Frankie Iacone is stabbed to death in the apartment of an alcoholic, Luz, whose sponsor is Kohler's best friend's girlfriend. Since the police regard Luz as the obvious suspect, Kohler and his pals decide to try to find the real killer. Their amateurish inquiries into Iacone's drug dealing soon land them in hot water. Zelvin does a good job depicting Kohler's internal struggles, especially his ambivalence toward his ex-wife, Laura Dare, who alternates between coming on to him and blowing him off while subjecting him to late-night phone calls threatening suicide. Still, some readers might wish for more psychological depth in the Dare sections. (Oct.)
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In the dark and dangerous world of addiction, three friends (Death Will Get You Sober, 2008) try to help a young woman suspected of murder. Bruce Kohler, a recovering alcoholic, his best friend Jimmy, a computer whiz, and Jimmy's counselor girlfriend Barbara all become involved in the case of Barbara's client Luz after she finds her boyfriend Frankie dead on the floor of her apartment. Luz can't accept the fact that Frankie, who just got out of rehab, was not only a drug dealer but had a wife and children in Brooklyn. Bruce's struggles to control his addiction aren't helped by frantic calls from ex-wife Laura. Beautiful, talented, bipolar and addicted to drugs and sex, Laura still sleeps with Bruce, who can't say no, but she's also in an abusive relationship with a new man. Together with Luz, the three buddies travel to Frankie's funeral in the wilds of Brooklyn. A member of a large Italian family, Frankie hid many secrets from his loving parents. Luz's picture of his marriage as cold takes a beating when she sees his very pregnant wife at the funeral, and some ladies' room gossip indicates that Luz may not have been Frankie's only bit on the side. Their continued sleuthing leads the pals to new clues and puts them in danger from a killer. Zelvin's deft touch with some of New York's neediest makes up for the so-so mystery.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780312582661
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 10/13/2009
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

ELIZABETH ZELVIN is a psychotherapist and an Agatha Award-nominated author. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.

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  • Posted September 30, 2009

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    Bruce and his amateur sleuth cohorts make for an intriguing urban mystery

    In New York, drug dealer Frankie Iacone is found dead in the apartment of his girlfriend Luz. The police suspects Luz stabbed her boyfriend who just came out of rehab as they insist her motive is learning he had a wife and children living in Brooklyn.

    Luz's counselor Barbara, her boyfriend Jimmy and his best buddy recovering alcoholic Jimmy investigate the homicide. Bruce also struggles with his dealings with his former wife bipolar addict Laura who he still sleeps with and who tempts his addiction. Their unprofessional investigation leads the trio into trouble with the police and with associates of Frankie as they attend his funeral where they meet his warm Italian family including his pregnant wife.

    In his second appearance (see DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER) Bruce and his amateur sleuth cohorts make for an intriguing urban mystery as they fumble their way through the city's most downtrodden residents trying to find the killer. The story line is a very dark look at the mean streets of New York from the view of the undesirable forgotten. For instance Bruce's ex spouse is a fascinating character as she uses the threat of suicide as a defense mechanism to get Bruce to come over and then either kicks him to curb or has sex with him. His confusion as to how to escape the relationship enhances a psychological look at New York's emotionally desperately needy as the people overwhelms the whodunit.

    Harriet Klausner

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