{"id":7675,"date":"2020-08-29T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:35:51","slug":"344g-backstabbing-literally-females-at-dream-beach-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/344g-backstabbing-literally-females-at-dream-beach-house\/","title":{"rendered":"344G: Backstabbing (Literally?) Females At Dream Beach House (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">The book was a paperback fiction.\u00a0 I read it probably 10 or 15 years ago.\u00a0 I do not remember the title or the author.\u00a0 I believe the female author had a common first name but spelled slightly different (example &#8211; Lynda instead of Linda &#8211; but that wasn&#8217;t the name)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">There were four female characters- collegemates- and a male college student that was dating one of the girls.\u00a0 Two of the girls were best friends but hung out with two others.\u00a0 The male college student was an architect and dreamed of building the perfect house in the perfect spot (on a beach)\u00a0 One of the friends was a flashy blond who was rich and ended up stealing and marrying the man from her classmate because she could give him the property to build that perfect house.\u00a0 The other classmate was a strange person who eavesdropped on the other three girls and often heard them making fun of her (she never forgot that)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">I am not sure how many years later the rich blond invited everyone to her big beautiful home her husband had built on the beach for a reunion.\u00a0 The one classmate had married and had children (average kind of boring life) and her best friend had married a cop who was paralyzed in the line of duty (living sad life) (if I recall correctly)\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t really want to go to the reunion but ended up going.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">In the meantime over the years the fourth member of their group was the butt of their jokes.\u00a0 She wasn&#8217;t pretty.\u00a0 Short and chubby.\u00a0 I think she had red frizzy hair etc.\u00a0 She had blossomed.\u00a0 Lost weight and had become a famous writer\/author.\u00a0 She was well off and she apparently held a grudge all those years &#8211; and was out to get revenge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">My memory is pretty blurry about the time they spent on the beach.\u00a0 The blond had become an alcoholic, not pretty any more.\u00a0 Her husband said he had always loved the first girlfriend and was making a play for her at his beach house.\u00a0 The climax in the story was when the author lady tried to kill one or more of them during a big storm that blew in.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">I enjoyed the story and was hoping to find the author&#8217;s name to see if she had written any other books.\u00a0 I have been looking for years with no luck.\u00a0 This is the last I will try.\u00a0 I hope you can finally solve my mystery.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book was a paperback fiction.\u00a0 I read it probably 10 or 15 years ago.\u00a0 I do not remember the title or the author.\u00a0 I believe the female author had a common first name but spelled slightly different (example &#8211; Lynda instead of Linda &#8211; but that wasn&#8217;t the name) There were four female characters- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,18],"tags":[280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}