SOCIAL CRIMES

In a story of the richest of the rich in New York City, Jo Slater, the wife of a wealthy man, befriends a French woman named Monique. When Jo’s husband of 20 years dies, she finds that Monique has inherited all. As Jo tries to get the money back, she begins to slide down the steep slope of poverty and depression. Barbara Rosenblat’s performance of Jo’s story is flawless as she becomes the cultured, rich philanthropist; the sycophantic Monique; the smarmy lawyers, and the others of this social set. What crimes did Jo commit? Or was it Monique? Rosenblat tells all in this novel of possession and obsession, love and lust, and pure hatred. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 04]