Annette S. (annette-s) reviewed on 1/15/2013 + 49 more book reviews

I would like to recommend A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick. Set in the early 1900s, Ralph Truitt was a lonely man living in seriously cold and miserable Wisconsin. This was not a hot dating spot. People apparently went mad at one point or another randomly maiming and killing neighbors, friends and relatives or cutting off their own legs. As the narrator says, "Such things happen." Remind me never to go to Wisconsin. They may have good cheese, but I hear California cows are much happier. Who would sign up to live in that crazy cold place with a complete stranger? Well, it's probably not a Sunday school teacher. Catherine, who answered the ad, came with a bag full of secrets and a few bottles of poison to boot. Her plan was to become Ralph's wealthy widow. Don't let the long description at the train station at the beginning of the book scare you off. It had some of our book club members wondering what they had gotten themselves into. Keep reading. In the end our book club gave it a thumbs up. Read other reviews at readinginthegarden.blotspot.com

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