After thirteen years of marriage, David Pepin still deeplyloves his wife, Alice - yet he obsessively contemplates herdemise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraughtand the prime suspect. The detectives investigating Alice's suspicious death haveplenty of experience with marital enigmas: Ward Hastroll andhis wife are happily married, until she inexplicably becomesvoluntarily bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitiveto marital guilt, having decades before been convicted andthen exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife. These interlocking dramas pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone completely? Are murderand marriage two sides of the same coin? And what, in the end, is the truth about love? | Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross, Paperback | Indigo Chapters