From the New York Times bestselling creator of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an imaginitive, entirely propulsive murder-mystery in opposite, tracing a marriage back in time to find the dark mystery at its heart.
Thom and Wendy Graves were married for over twenty-5 years. They stay in a beautiful Victorian at the north shore of Massachusetts.
Wendy is a posted poet and Thom teaches English literature at a close-by college. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is nicely…except that Wendy wants to homicide her husband.
What happens subsequent has the whole thing to do with what passed off before. The tale of Wendy and Thom’s marriage is told in reverse, moving backward via time to witness key moments from the couple’s lives—their 50th birthday celebration, shopping for their home, Jason’s start, the mysterious loss of life of a work colleague—all painting a portrait of a wedding described by way of a single horrible act they plotted collectively a few years ago.
Eventually we learn the details of what Thom and Wendy did of their early twenties, a secret that has saved them sure collectively via the period of their marriage.
But its strength over them is fraying, and each of them starts offevolved to surprise if they could be higher off ensuring their partner includes their secrets and techniques to the grave.