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008			092907s2009 ncu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008049700
020			_a9781565125964
050	0	0	_aPS3607.O5925 _bR45 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC GOO
100	1		_aGoolrick, Robert, 1948-
245	1	2	_aA reliable wife _b: a novel _c/ by Robert Goolrick
250			_a1st ed
260			_aChapel Hill _b: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill _c, 2009.
300			_a291 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aRural 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 â?? a passionate man with his own dark secrets â??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.
650		0	_aMarriage _x--Fiction
650			_aFamily secrets _v--Fiction
651		0	_aWisconsin _x--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c260934 _d260934