Book Review THE SMART ONE written by Ellen Meister

I really enjoyed reading THE SMART ONE by Ellen Meister.  I was able to get into it right from the beginning.   What more could you ask for Drugs, sex and rock and roll, along with murder, and sibling Rivalry even though the three sisters are all adults now.  I found it a good read from beginning to end.

Bev is the Smart One, who finally leaves her artistic ambitions in chalk dust (and her humor-impaired husband in the arms-and legs-of his nubile protégée) to become a schoolteacher. Clare, the pretty one, married well and is living the life of the perfect suburban housewife and mother. Joey, the wild one, has successfully completed rehab, which is enough to impress everyone, despite the fact that her fifteen minutes of fame as the lead singer for one-hit rock band has long-since fizzled.

Like most sisters, Bev, Clare and Joey have never fully resolved the old slights and jealousies from years gone by. But they aren't the only ones with issues from the past. They're shocked to discover their next-door-neighbor, Sam Waxman, has his own skeleton in the closet or, more accurately, in the industrial drum hidden beneath his house. And when Bev and her sisters open the lid and see a human hand, the journey to revealing the secrets of their own lives begins.