I Love My Husband's Killer - Paperback
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Eight months after her husband was murdered in their own kitchen,
Cora Hale is still cooking dinner for two.
Then the letter arrives.
Cream-colored stationery. No return address. A single line she
cannot stop reading:
I am the man who killed your husband.
He does not ask for forgiveness. He offers, instead, an answer to
the question Cora has asked the dark ceiling of her bedroom for
two hundred and forty-three nights: why us.
Why the back door, which she had locked, was open. Why the alarm,
which she had set, was off. Why a man who had no reason on earth
to come for Daniel Hale had been let in by Daniel Hale.
Cora writes back.
She does not tell her sister. She does not tell the detective. She
drives, instead, the long road to a state prison in Maine, where
her husband's killer is waiting at a laminate table on the other
side of a guard with a paperback.
And in the small careful country of letters between strangers,
Cora Hale begins to understand what her husband actually was-
And what she is willing to become to set the man who killed him
free.
A slow-burn literary psychological thriller about marriage, grief,
and the woman a widow becomes when she finally stops looking away.
Scarlett Knox writes psychological thrillers and dark, slow-burn
romances. She lives on the coast of Maine in a small wooden house
with bad locks and a good kettle, and she is most often found
writing in the corner of a public library where the librarians
have stopped asking what she is working on.
She came to fiction late. For most of her thirties she worked in
corporate law in Boston, where she spent a great deal of time
watching very intelligent women translate themselves into smaller
versions of themselves to get a sentence into the room. She left
in her thirty-eighth year. She did not, to the surprise of no one
in her family, ever go back.
Her first novel was written longhand in a series of cheap notebooks
in the year after her mother's death, and remains, by her own
admission, in a drawer where it deserves to be. I LOVE MY HUSBAND'S
KILLER is the book she had to write before she could write the rest
of them.
She is interested in the long quiet decisions women make in their
own kitchens at strange hours, in the bad architectures of long
marriages, and in the question of who gets to write the story when
the man who has been writing it for fifteen years is no longer in
the room. She is also interested, against her better judgment,
in love.
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