Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
A Reliable Wife - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

A Reliable Wife

Robert Goolrick

Publisher: Algonquin Books

  • 0
  • 8
  • 0

Summary

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.
Available since: 01/05/2010.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Revenge of Blood-Red Rivers - cover

    The Revenge of Blood-Red Rivers

    Martin Lundqvist

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    After surviving the Rwandan genocide, Samantha Nyamwasa sets out to avenge her family.  
This audiobook follows the adolescent Samantha Nyamwasa as she travels through a war-torn Rwanda during the genocide of Tutsis in 1994. Samantha survives rape, genital mutilation, and the murder of her family. Despite all her ordeals, she stays strong and is determined to reach her goal, To murder Colonel Patrick Bagosora and avenge her family.
    Show book
  • The Black Tower - A Novel - cover

    The Black Tower - A Novel

    Louis Bayard

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818—and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking—and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost.
    Show book
  • Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge An - cover

    Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge An

    Ambrose Bierce

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Sometimes the best solution is an escape- through rivers, woods, your own mind. An epic journey taking place in American history. 
Please visit us at www.canaritaudiobooks.com, and contact us at production@canaritaudiobooks.com 
Credits: 
Produced by: Canarit 
Author: Ambrose Bierce 
Directed by: Gil Geva 
Recorded and Edited by: Shalev Alon 
Performed by: 
John Dellapora 
Jacob Dalton 
Jacob Pankin 
SFX and Music by: 
Shalev Alon 
Soundotcom 
Adam Vitovsky
    Show book
  • The Rivals of Versailles - A Novel - cover

    The Rivals of Versailles - A Novel

    Sally Christie

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The year is 1745, and King Louis XV's bed is once again empty. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes. As a child, a fortune teller had told young Jeanne's destiny: She would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King's arms.All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals-including a lustful lady-in-waiting, a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters-she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution.
    Show book
  • A Tapestry of Light (Dreams of India) - cover

    A Tapestry of Light (Dreams of...

    Kimberly Duffy

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Calcutta, 1886. 
 
Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. In order to support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of Indian women. 
 
When a stranger appears with the news that Thaddeus is now Baron Sunderson and must travel to England to take his place as a nobleman, Ottilie is shattered by the secrets that come to light. Despite her growing friendship with Everett Scott, friend to Ottilie's English grandmother and aunt, she refuses to give up her brother. Then tragedy strikes, and she is forced to make a decision that will take Thaddeus far from death and herself far from home.  
 
But betrayal and loss lurk in England, too, and soon Ottilie must fight to ensure Thaddeus doesn't forget who he is, as well as find a way to stitch a place for herself in this foreign land.
    Show book
  • The Grave of God's Daughter - A Novel - cover

    The Grave of God's Daughter - A...

    Brett Ellen Block

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A woman is faced with the past she's tried to put behind her only to find that what transpired in her childhood has never been further away than her own shadow.The year is 1941. Rooted in the lonely outreaches of the Allegheny Mountains lies the town of Hyde Bend. Its heart: a steel mill; its bones: the tight community of Polish immigrants who inhabit it; and its blood: their fierce Catholic faith. But buried in the town's soul is a dangerous secret surrounding the death of a revered priest.Upon returning to Hyde Bend, a young woman accidentally uncovers the truth behind this crime, which leads to a second murder. The town quickly erupts in fear and finger pointing. The girl is forced to unravel the now-intertwined mysteries and discovers her own family at the center. Now she must confront all she holds sacred if she is to save her family and herself in this story of lost innocence, transgression, faith, and forgiveness.
    Show book