Ours Is a Tale of Murder
A Novel
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4.4 • 16 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"A shocking collision made all the more satisfying by Murphy’s brilliant twists...Clear your schedule—you won’t be putting this down until that last, mesmerizing page.” —Carter Wilson, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did
One quiet neighborhood
Three different families
Bound by murder
Klara never wanted the house with the white picket fence. Troy never wanted anything else.
Nothing is quite right with this happy couple, but isn’t every home hiding something? Mary, the mother in the blue house, is cleaning out her son’s old room before she sells, haunted by the mistakes of her past and afraid of what her home has become. Henry, freshly laid off and back living with his parents, has plenty of time to watch everyone—especially wives. He knows something is wrong with the couple across the street. But then, nothing is quite what it seems, and sometimes you miss what’s right in front of you. Murder will soon thread its way through this world in ways no one will see coming—unless you’ve been the one plotting it all along.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Murphy (The New Mother) crafts a devilish mystery populated by a cast of untrustworthy characters. At the outset, Klara Martin, a torts lawyer eager to make partner at her firm, is approached at a party by handsome fellow attorney Troy Weston. Eventually the two marry, and Murphy intertwines the story of their complex relationship with that of two of their neighbors in the well-off Maryland suburb of Hawthorne Heights. Mary is a peculiar widow who worships her son Owen and has regrets about her relationship with her late husband, Ed. Henry is an unemployed adult with a history of stalking girls as far back as middle school; he spends his days watching Klara, Troy, and Mary from his window, growing convinced that Klara needs saving. As the three households hurtle toward a violence, Murphy pulls the rug out from under the reader, recasting the entire narrative in a new light. Few readers will have seen it coming, but they will, in hindsight, be impressed by Murphy's ingenious narrative structure and clever placement of clues. Paula Hawkins fans should seek this out.
