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I was recently wandering around a bookstore and came across the book A Reliable Wife. I decided to add this one to my collection because I love that is set in Wisconsin (where I live!) but there appears to be some twists in this story and one of my favorite things is when an author keeps me guessing. I’m going to be starting this one soon because I need to know all the things!
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Published by Algonquin Books on January 5th 2010
Genres: Fiction, General, Historical
Pages: 320 
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt — a passionate man with his own dark secrets —has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.
With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.
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