If you like murder mysteries AND historical fiction, this is the book for you! It kept me up late reading and I haven't had a book do that for me in a long, long time. With the setting in the Isles of Shoals, a group of islands 10 miles off the coast of NH, this was a good summer read also.
The murder mystery comes from court transcripts from the State of Maine v. Louis H. F. Wagner following the murders of 2 women on a snowy night in March of 1873. Apart from the historical record, names, characters and places are fictional for the story set in 1995 when Jean, a magazine photographer, goes to the isles with her family to do a piece on the historic murders. Jean asks, 'If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?' Then Jean herself walks to the edge in her own relationships, and the consequences are unexpectedly horrific.
The murder mystery comes from court transcripts from the State of Maine v. Louis H. F. Wagner following the murders of 2 women on a snowy night in March of 1873. Apart from the historical record, names, characters and places are fictional for the story set in 1995 when Jean, a magazine photographer, goes to the isles with her family to do a piece on the historic murders. Jean asks, 'If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?' Then Jean herself walks to the edge in her own relationships, and the consequences are unexpectedly horrific.
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