Summary: When her sister is brutally murdered, Julia Wilding puts her simple, comfortable life at risk in order to investigate Kate's death. 
 Review: Meh. 
 While I am not the type of reader that will only read books with likeable protagonists, I do have to like or connect with the main character in some way- even if I just connect with something in their past, or I like some element of their "personality", or maybe I admire their full commitment to crazy. Something must click. In Second Life there was nothing. 
 Right from the beginning, I couldn't help feeling that Julia was poking around in her sister's murder just to alleviate her ennui, to relieve her bored housewife syndrome. Although there were some twists and turns that I didn't see coming, I still found myself impatient with the book in general. 
 Ending: 
 At the end, the story just felt like one long warning to married women- if you act like a slut and step out on your husband there will be harsh consequences.