Not a first book, but a first novel, a dark psychological drama.
It's 1907. A wealthy business owner from Wisconsin places an ad in a Chicago newspaper for a "reliable wife." The woman who answers it is not what she has pretended to be and sees an opportunity to marry the man and kill him in the near future so she inherits. Ralph Truitt has quite a story in his own past and plans of his own. He knows she's not what she's pretended to be from the moment she steps off the train, yet he marries her anyway. They each have secrets and secret motivations. As she begins to poison him with arsenic, the characters learn more about themselves and each other than you were expecting and as the days progress, the story unfolds in many delightful twisting ways.
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