The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water

By Anita Shreve

Pages

246

Rating

3.65

Year

1997

ContemporaryChick LitFictionMysteryHistorical FictionHistorical

Description

A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel.

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