Long Island floral designer Susie Gersten gives up the goods on herself on the second page of Susan Isaacs’ latest whodunit. “(It) wouldn’t have taken a psychologist to read my emotional pie chart and determine that the sum of my parts equaled one shallow (though contented) human being. One third of that happiness was attributable to the afterglow of the birthday present my husband had given me …

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