Fiona Quirina, Sex, A Mystery

Fiona Quirina, Sex, A Mystery - Harvard MBA Lydia Quess blows the whistle on her Fortune 500 employer by coming clean about the lack of nutritional value of the baby formula they sell overseas. The company was fined and Lydia was unemployed and unqualified when she sought new executive work.

Wanting to maintain her Manhattan lifestyle, Lydia obtains work from a friend, sex therapist Dr. Sylvie Kahn who sends clients her way. The position proves lucrative, enabling Lydia to pay her share of the apartment she platonically shares with Father Paddy as her stable consistently shows up for sessions. However, Michael Peabody Linscott III of Tuesday appointment fame is murdered in Lydia's bed. The police assume Lydia killed her client as opportunity for anyone else to have committed the crime is very limited with a doorman on duty. Unable to sit back and take the hit, Lydia investigates the murder, starting with learning more about Michael.

SEX, A MYSTERY is a tremendous, chick lit, amateur sleuth romp that deftly handles a variety of social and personal issues with humor and intelligence. Lydia charms the audience as she provides an amusing Manhattan romp while seeking to prove her innocence, which she knows the man she saw flee the crime scene (for murder not bad sex) in the gray suit probably is one of her other clients. Fans of lighthearted-with-a-serious-undertone chic mysteries will enjoy Lydia's New York City joyride.

Harriet Klausner