Over Her Dead Body, Susan Walter

This is a fast read, and you will enjoy it, but it may not knock your socks off. While the writing is good, I struggled with so many first-person storytellers.

There is Louisa, the awful mother (trust me, she is a villain you will love to hate), her children, simpy [fun word of the day *'simp' is slang for a person (typically a man) who is desperate for the attention and affection of someone else (typically a woman)*] Charlie who reads like a wet noddle, his wife Marcella who controls Charlie and has a side-squeeze whom she is also controlling, Winnie, Louisa's daughter who is a raging alcoholic, Nathan, Louisa's nephew whom she loves and cares for like a son, Ashley, some random wannabe actress who lives down the road from Louisa, and Ashley's roommate, Jordan, with whom Ashley has a pact to marry if they are both single when she turns 30, which happens to be just a few weeks away. [sucking in a deep breath after that long-winded sentence.] Whew, that's a lot of first-person prose to keep up with.

When Louisa turns up dead, to the astonishment of all involved, her fortune falls into play. But when the will is read with a stranger in the midst, Louisa's children take matters into their own hands.

The twists and turns are plentiful. The last few pages were surprising and felt a little forced to me, which distracted from the punch. But, it all ended well, and Susan Walter did a good job reaching the finish line.