A Prize On the Lam

TITLE: AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

AUTHOR: SUSAN ISAACS

PUBLISHER: HARPERCOLLINS 343 PAGES; $23

THE BOTTOM LINE: Isaacs creates a suburban detective who, though no tanned beauty, is perfect for the beach.

At 3:30 in the morning, Rose Meyers, a middle-aged Jewish English teacher who can't sleep, wanders down to the kitchen of her ritzy Long Island home to grab some nonfat yogurt and trips over the body of her estranged husband, the millionaire Richie, stabbed through the heart with a carving knife from Williams-Sonoma. Because he cheated on Rosie for 25 years and then dumped her, some might say the bum...

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