To add to the witch s brew, it turns out that Raymond married Ruby only six weeks earlier when he discovered she was pregnant. Much of the story describes the varied reactions of the three wives to the discovery of Raymond s perfidy. A good deal of the plot concerns the efforts of the police to find out who killed Raymond. Finally, the women themselves set out to discover what really happened. All of this is quite entertaining.
Bond manages to create some very funny scenes as well as some very moving moments.
However, this doesn t leave much time for romance, and romance there must be. Natalie is the wife who gets the love story, with the pawnshop owner, no less. Brian is really a nice guy, despite his job, as is evidenced by the fact that he takes good care of his two little nieces. That Brian might be taken with Natalie makes a certain amount of sense. That Natalie would embark on a romance with Brian so soon after the death of her husband, even if he had betrayed her, seems much less plausible.