Overview: Bad Girl Pie is a dark comedy set in New York City. Dorothy Sherlock, a prolific ghostwriter, shares her running commentary on the absurdity of the human condition as she navigates her future.

Verdict: Until now, she’s spent her life crafting other people’s success stories and mourning a failed romance. After a near-fatal encounter with her abusive father and his sudden death, Dorothy resolves to write her own book, blending her expertise in dieting and dessert. A whirlwind trip to a tango festival in Mexico reignites her passion for love through a romantic tryst with a tango-dancing firefighter.

Hopeful and happy, Dorothy returns home, only to discover that her agent has stolen the manuscript and sold it to a new client, and her late father has cut her out of his will. As if this weren’t enough, Dorothy reconnects with her ex-boyfriend, but after a night of bliss, she finds out that he’s living in sin with his cleaning lady. The triple whammy drives her to despair. Can Dorothy’s sense of humor and talent save her and help her find success?

In what is one of the most compelling, forthright and yet highly inventive, elegantly sculpted and just darn well enjoyable reads that I have had the pleasure to undertake in the past five years - whether it be for business of pleasure - Bad Girl Pie by award-winning author Marilyn Horowitz is one of those books they highly, and rightly recommend as being an infectious page-turner.

Chock full of a lot of the usual suspects of genre writing such as suspense, intrigue, love, hate, foul play and more, Horowitz expertly travails these varying pathways, never leaving the reader too mired down within the one emotion before a new one slides into second base to move the plot forward.

At its heart an intensely structured, yet dutifully crafted phycological thriller, albeit one that dances on the fringes of what is real and, perhaps what is not, the admittedly slow burn of a story garners your attention from the off, promising a well scripted, at times twisty story to follow, of which it duly comes through with, culminating in an ending that is both satisfying and, depending on your viewing standpoint, well earnt.

About the Author - Marilyn Horowitz is an award-winning author who has taught her trademarked storytelling method at New York University for twenty-five years. Her students have been nominated for Emmy Awards, won a Peabody Award and been produced by the major Hollywood studios. Horowitz is a Reiki master and is certified in Dao Yin Yoga and Authentic Movement. She lives in New York, US.

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