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Fit To Die
Lauren Prescott is 50, fat and flat broke after her husband leaves her. To land a magazine job, Lauren writes a profile of a fitness guru who died while jogging - a death that looks increasingly suspicious the more she probes.
- GenresMystery
293 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2006
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January 20, 2009
Okay, this book was fantastic the entire thing. There were absolutely no dull points in this book what so ever! I mean, it was a truly perfectly written book. I picked up the book only because of the title. FIT TO DIE. I workout alot and I read the back and thought this isn't that long and should be good. I had no idea how great it would be. I was happy to finish the book with a smile. A MUST READ FOR ANY MYSTERY READER! KEEP READING! This was my second book completed for 2009. Hugs & Happy Reading, Heather P.
January 1, 2008
I liked the characters in this book. The story held my interest and was fast moving.
May 29, 2011
Lauren Prescott is a fifty year old housewife in what she thought was a good marriage, other than her husband is cheap, distant, and always complaining about her weight. Once day after picking a fight over her stash of candy bars, her dentist husband leaves her. The next day, he steals all the family furniture (the valuable stuff) and art. He closes his practice and disappears.
Abruptly thrust in survival mode, Lauren seeks a job and gets a trial writing assignment from a local magazine; she is to write a profile of the death of a famous fitness guru who died while jogging. As she deciphers the complex relationships of the man's family, she is also unraveling the secrets of her husband's departure and his life outside the family. It soon becomes apparent that the bodies she is discovering in her own mystery dovetail oddly with the death of the fitness guru.
Well written with good, strong characters. This is not a mystery with a gimmick, this is a good, strong portrait of a woman coping with ordinary and extraordinary circumstances and coming through by her own wit, forthrightness, honesty, and logic.
Abruptly thrust in survival mode, Lauren seeks a job and gets a trial writing assignment from a local magazine; she is to write a profile of the death of a famous fitness guru who died while jogging. As she deciphers the complex relationships of the man's family, she is also unraveling the secrets of her husband's departure and his life outside the family. It soon becomes apparent that the bodies she is discovering in her own mystery dovetail oddly with the death of the fitness guru.
Well written with good, strong characters. This is not a mystery with a gimmick, this is a good, strong portrait of a woman coping with ordinary and extraordinary circumstances and coming through by her own wit, forthrightness, honesty, and logic.
December 21, 2014
Lauren's husband packs up and leaves after a fight involving her consumption of Baby Ruth candy bars. She thinks he will be back, but instead he disappears, leaving her broke with no way to pay the mortgage. She needs to find a job, interviews for a job where she needs to write an article to show editor what she can do. She suggests a story on a fitness/nutrition guru, age 52, who died suddenly of a heart attack while jogging.
Lauren starts discovering dead people. It appears her gone husband may be involved in their murders.
The story was interesting, but I did not care for the novel. If you ever were with someone who had something happen, perhaps a car accident, that told you all the details, then had to listen to same person repeat those details to five other people, you might understand why I got tired of this book.
Yes, a person who discovers a dead body will have to repeat details to police, detectives, family and friends. But how many times do we need to read about the fitness guy's death, potassium, and so on? I read a lot of mystery novels and have never found one that repeated the same info as much as this book did.
Lauren starts discovering dead people. It appears her gone husband may be involved in their murders.
The story was interesting, but I did not care for the novel. If you ever were with someone who had something happen, perhaps a car accident, that told you all the details, then had to listen to same person repeat those details to five other people, you might understand why I got tired of this book.
Yes, a person who discovers a dead body will have to repeat details to police, detectives, family and friends. But how many times do we need to read about the fitness guy's death, potassium, and so on? I read a lot of mystery novels and have never found one that repeated the same info as much as this book did.
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