Library Journal First Novels #2

In the latest edition of Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert spotlights first time novelists that have hot releases coming to your bookstore this summer. Of course, I had a fantastic time checking out all the books on the Pop Fiction and Literary lists, so I would like to highlight a few that caught my eye.

Following Polly

by Karen Bergreen

Here is the description from the Macmillian website:

Would you call Alice Teakle a stalker? Or just someone with an, um, healthy obsession with golden girl Polly Linley Dawson? No one much notices Alice: not her boss, not the neighbors, not even her Mother. Besides, everyone follows Polly: her business selling high-end lingerie you can imagine only her elegant self wearing, her all-over-the-social-pages marriage to movie director Humphrey Dawson, her chic looks, her wardrobe. Alice just follows her a little more….closely. And when she loses her job and starts to follow Polly Dawson one Manhattan autumn afternoon, Alice stumbles on the object of her attention sprawled dead on the floor of a boutique. Alice is forced to become truly beneath anyone’s notice. Invisible, in fact. Because she’s accused of murder. But can another obsession help save Alice with the fallout? Charlie is Alice’s longtime unattainable crush. He might be able to help her out of the mess she’s in…in return for a favor or two, that is. And how will Alice find out if Charlie is really the man Alice thinks he is?

What do you think? Is Following Polly on your TBR list?