Blood Sugar by Sasha Rothchild

 

Ruby is a therapist and she considers herself a great one.  The fact that she's killed three people shouldn't change that, should it?  Her first murder was when she was five and killed the bully that made her adored big sister's life miserable.  She didn't kill again until she was a senior in high school when she killed one of her friends' father.  The father was a letch who targeted young girls.  Finally, in almost an offhand thought she killed the most miserable patient she'd ever encountered years later when she was about to start her own practice.

But now Ruby is in trouble.  Her husband, who she loved unabashedly, had died in the night and she is accused of killing him.  He had life long diabetes and neither of them heard his alarm bell going off in the night.  Ruby can't believe she got by with real murders and now is set to go on trial for killing the one person she never would.  Will she be convicted?

Sasha Rothchild is known for her work in television and is an Emmy-nominated writer.  The reader will see that influence in the book which is written in short vignettes that could be adapted for a tv series or movie.  Ruby isn't a particularly likeable person no matter the justifications she adopts.  The irony in being put on trial for the one death she would never cause is perhaps her best punishment.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.