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I'm back after a few months' delay to recap SVU 36, Have You Heard About Elizabeth? Well, let's see. Perfect size six? Pacific Ocean-colored eyes? Matching barrettes? Master of the condescending shoulder pat? Yep, heard about her.

Okay, so I have to admit that this isn't a terrible cover. Elizabeth and Jessica do spend some time being sisterly, and they actually look kind of cute here. However, this will probably be the nicest thing I say about this book, so I'm glad I was able to get it out of the way so quickly.

Speaking of getting things out of the way, the ghostwriter gives us the "identical but so different" speech on page three, so at least I don't have to live with any suspense in this one. I'm going to divide this recap into three parts for the three separate plots in which very little actually happens. I'm serious: this book probably could have been ten pages long if they'd cut out the repetitive and/or unnecessary parts.

And that's the book. I think the C plot was the most interesting one in the book, because aside from Liz and Tom's shouting match nothing really happened in the other two. Just lots of people being indecisive about things. At least Denise was out there doing stuff, even if that stuff consisted entirely of increasingly idiotic decisions.

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I'm back again with another recap/attempt to revive this wonderful community! This book is the second in a miniseries that started with Out of the Picture, where everyone's trying to solve a murder mystery even though they all suck at it.

I don't know what the point of this cover picture is. There's only one scene where Jessica talks on the phone, and it's not really pivotal to anything that happens in the book. If they wanted a cover that conveys the tone of the story, they should have shown Tom and Elizabeth brooding angrily while a bunch of wealthy, vapid brats look on.