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This week the Times is offering A Reliable Wife by Rober Goolrick for half-price with the paper. The Novel is a gothic tale of smoldering desire and is a real bodice ripper at times, which takes place in 1907 during a Wisconsin winter, and features a 58-year-old widower named Ralph Truitt, who is the wealthiest man in town, but inside he’s burning with the unsated desire of 20 solitary years. So he requisitions a Mail-Order Bride named Catherine through a classified ad, for practical not romantic reasons, however Ralph isn’t entirely what he seems.

When his bride Catherine finally does arrive, looking prim and dour, she isn’t what she appears to be, either – She threw her extravagant party dresses out the train window a few miles from town, and she has hidden jewels in the hem of her black wool dress. She’s not even the woman in the photo she sent Ralph during their summer of tentative correspondence. And she’s carrying a bottle of arsenic and a long and complicated scheme….