A Reliable Wife

一位神祕多金的男子刊出公告：
徵求可靠單純的女人
以婚姻為前提，而非浪漫戀情
意者信洽，非誠勿試。

　　凜凜寒風中，富商雷夫．褚以德獨自站在火車月臺上，等待一名遠從芝加哥到來、答應他徵婚啟事的女子。但走下火車的凱薩琳．蘭德，並非褚以德期望的那個「可靠單純的女人」。褚以德還是接納了她，為的是什麼？

　　凱薩琳心懷詭計，另有所圖，有段不可告人的複雜過去。她打算先贏得褚以德的心，再慢慢將他毒死，獨占大筆遺產然後遠走高飛。但她萬萬沒想到褚以德也有深埋心底的祕密，並且對她另有安排。

　　瘋狂性愛、慾望與謀殺，在這棟位居偏僻的豪宅、茫茫大雪裡，慾望角力就此開始。

本書特色

　　一則徵婚啟事
　　串起三個孤獨又渴望真愛的靈魂

　　★本書中譯本《可靠的妻子》由「馥林文化」出版

　　He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.

　　What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love.

　　Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.

作者簡介

羅勃．古力克(Robert Goolrick)

　　《紐約時報》暢銷作者

　　繼2007年出版大受好評的傳記《THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT》之後，出版他的第一本小說《可靠的妻子》。

　　《可靠的妻子》承襲《咆哮山莊》和《蝴蝶夢》的傳統，是一部關於性愛與瘋狂、慾望與謀殺的作品。故事在一個暫時失控脫軌的世界裡緩緩鋪展。書中的主角雷夫‧褚以德體現出每個男人心中都有一個妻子典型的夢想。故事敘述精彩迷人，懸疑神祕之外，更有濃厚的情色羅曼史色彩。作者現居紐約。

　　JAMES DODSON is the author of bestselling Final Rounds, which was named the Golf Book of the Year by the International Network of Golf in 1996. He is also the author of The Road To Somewhere: Travels With A Young Boy Through An Old World, as well as Faithful Travelers, The Dewsweepers, and A Golfer’s Life, a collaboration with Arnold Palmer that was a New York Times bestseller. He lives with his family in Southern Pines, North Carolina.