Trish is a reporter, just laid off from the Detroit Free Press. Her friend Jane, still employed there, suggests they start a lunch club, mostly for laid-off reporters. And things go nicely until one member, Grace, brings a friend from church.
Mrs. Alva Warren was pushing sixty, a heavyset widow in a flowered dress. I doubted she'd stay fifteen minutes.
But stay she did. And when one of the members suspects that her husband is having an affair Mrs. Warren reveals some surprising aspects of her past and philosophy.
"In my daddy's time we had a few more options."
"What options?" Grace asked.
"Justifiable homicide for one," Mrs Warren said lightly.
I may be giving the wrong impression; this is not a light story and it only gets grimmer. But it is worth a read.
