Book Description
The banker husband, driving his new speedboat while drinking, crashes into a pier and kills himself. The beautiful middle aged wife, now free from the constraints of marriage, discovers an electronic goldmine; internet dating services. The insurance policy from her recently departed husband, God rest his soul, leaves her comfortably well off financially. Into the merry widow's well-ordered life stumble two bumbling Los Angeles detectives. The police officers, Detective Farquar and his female partner, Detective Longnecker, cross swords with the attractive widow because her new husbands keep meeting tragic deaths. With the demise of each new husband, the widow becomes wealthier and a powerful force to be reckoned with. The unlucky husbands, numbers one through six, keep meeting the Grim Reaper under suspicious circumstances. To further vex the two investigators, the well-endowed widow meets each future husband, and several clandestine boyfriends, through internet dating services. Like a radiant chameleon, the widow throws the detectives off track by changing her modus operandi; hopping like a Mexican jumping bean from 'Christian Widows Seeking a Religious Husband' to 'Frustrated Housewives Looking for Young Lovers'. One boyfriend, found on the 'Desperate Widows in Need' dating site, dies such a grotesque death, that even the battle-hardened Deputy Coroner quails at writing the death certificate…. Into the mix add two disgruntled children by the widow's first marriage; a young man and young woman who detest each new husband. Plus previously unknown suspicious relatives of the deceased husbands, coming out of the woodwork, that want to share in the insurance bounty. Is it possible for the gorgeous widow to have all these husbands die under mysterious circumstances and not be guilty?
