Wife Found Slain

by Caroline Crane

Book Overview

Mystery Writers of America Presents Stalked by a killer

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039608026X
• ISBN13: 9780396080268
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Dodd Mead
• Length: 202 Pages

Customer Reviews

A KILLER BOOK...

I was going through some of my old, never before read paperbacks the other day, and I found this one. The title grabbed me, so I picked it up. It turned out to be a well written novel of suspense. It is a quick, easy read, sure to entertain those readers who enjoy mysteries, thrillers and suspense novels. The story revolves around a young woman who gets a secretarial job in the city and ends up having an affair with her boss, who happens to have a house in the suburbs, a wife, and two kids. They fall in love and before you know it, his wife is found murdered in her home. The reader pretty much knows who is responsible for the murder, but after a trial, the responsible party literally gets away with murder. After the trial, the two lovers marry and have children of their own. Then thirteen years later, the wife appears to have a terrible, life threatening car crash. A terrible accident... or is it? The story is told, in part, from the perspective of the hospitalized wife who begins to recollect her past in flash backs, as she struggles to remember who she is and what happened to her. As she remembers the events that lead up to the car "accident" that put her into the hospital, she confronts the past and the impact that it has on her future. You see, she now believes that someone is trying to kill her. The reader surmises who might be behind such a plot long before the wife does, yet is with her as she undergoes her own discovery process. Her observations of her husband's current behavior, as well as her knowledge of what had transpired many years before, ultimately make him suspect in her eyes, as she no longer views him with the same naivete that she had when she first met him. Her only objective now is to stay alive. The reader's only question is...Will she?

A KILLER BOOK...

I was going through some of my old, never before read paperbacks the other day, and I found this one. The title grabbed me, so I picked it up. It turned out to be a well written novel of suspense. It is a quick, easy read, sure to entertain those readers who enjoy mysteries, thrillers and suspense novels. The story revolves around a young woman who gets a secretarial job in the city and ends up having an affair with her boss, who happens to have a house in the suburbs, a wife, and two kids. They fall in love and before you know it, his wife is found murdered in her home. The reader pretty much knows who is responsible for the murder, but after a trial, the responsible party literally gets away with murder.After the trial, the two lovers marry and have children of their own. Then thirteen years later, the wife appears to have a terrible, life threatening car crash. A terrible accident... or is it? The story is told, in part, from the perspective of the hospitalized wife who begins to recollect her past in flash backs, as she struggles to remember who she is and what happened to her. As she remembers the events that lead up to the car "accident" that put her into the hospital, she confronts the past and the impact that it has on her future. You see, she now believes that someone is trying to kill her. The reader surmises who might be behind such a plot long before the wife does, yet is with her as she undergoes her own discovery process. Her observations of her husband's current behavior, as well as her knowledge of what had transpired many years before, ultimately make him suspect in her eyes, as she no longer views him with the same naivete that she had when she first met him. Her only objective now is to stay alive. The reader's only question is...Will she?