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Developing characters and writing have been a part of Randi’s life since she
was a teenager, one hundred and fifty thousand years ago. She spent time
performing stand-up comedy at Los Angeles club amateur nights and studied Improvisation in the Bay Area. Realizing that she preferred having an income, living indoors and eating regularly, she reluctantly put her dreams on hold and entered the corporate world, yet never left behind her sense of humor and creative storytelling ability, skills which were not always appreciated during budget and strategy meetings.
Now, after living indoors for a while and eating regularly, albeit too much, Randi has picked up her pen again and her third novel, THE TRUTH ABOUT CAROLINE is here. It is the continuation to her second novel CAROLINE STARTS OVER (2014). Randi's first book PAULA TAKES A RISK was released in 2012. Look for Randi's next novel THE LOBBY, Spring-ish 2016.
Randi's unique wit, writing style and candor will surely make the reader sit up, stand up, roll over or assume an interested leaning position and take notice.
Randi lives in the California wine country. She would never claim to have a genius IQ, the body of a super model. However, she can spell “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Randi maintains a trim, well-toned body that is cleverly concealed beneath twenty pounds of soft protective layering and she has the appetite of a bird (vulture).
Things that Randi cannot live without: people to laugh with, her car horn, a gym membership where there are chubby women who break into a sweat while putting on a jog bra, wine, waist capes, and her wife, Carol.
Randi does not like mean-spirited people, liver, left-overs, communal dressing rooms, tight underwear, and people who point.
Randi is five-foot-seven.
Reviewed by John A G Smith for Readers' Favorite
Caroline is so disorganised that, according to one of her daughters ‘she couldn’t even organise a shopping list.’ She can’t even seem to make up her mind if she is a lesbian or bisexual. Yet she’s on trial for arranging the long-distance, cross-country assassination of her husband. After her acquittal, without skills of any kind and with no work experience to speak of, she has to rebuild her life. Then she remembers she has one supreme talent … she’s a natural and very accomplished liar. Using this ability, she creates a new persona and a new life. Things seem to be going well. Maybe too well. And as you follow Caroline’s tale you will begin to squirm as you see her sucked into a situation from which there can be no possible escape. Will she spot the trap or end up in another mess of trouble?
In The Truth About Caroline, Randi M. Sherman has crafted a novel that almost sits in a genre of its own. Is it a crime novel? Modern life? Intrigue? Some of all of them perhaps. The reader becomes engrossed as the lies she tells weave her deeper and deeper into the intrigue that is building around her, but which she is too naïve to fathom. Even when she tries to turn over a new leaf and start telling the truth that, too, goes wrong.
The characters are well drawn and believable. Each member of the cast has his or own character and quirks and you will go ‘up’ and ‘down’ with their moods. At times you will pity the poor Caroline and at others you will want to slap her. In some parts you may even laugh out loud. Randi’s use of language is rich and varied. Stick with it to the end. It’s worth every minute.
