Sandrine's Case

Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, and he offers one of his most compelling novels ever in Sandrine's Case, a lush and twisting literary mystery in which a college professor falls in love with his wife all over again...while on trial for her murder.Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He was a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she a brilliant, beautiful, bohemian with limitless talents and imagination. On the surface their relationship and marriage semed perfectly tranquil: jobs at the same small, liberal arts college, a precocious young daughter, a home filled with beautiful art and captivating literature, and trips to some of the world's most beautiful cities and towns. And then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed and Samuel is accused of her murder.As the truth about their often tumultuous relationship unspools and the facts surrounding Sandrine’s strange death come to light, Samuel must face a town and media convinced of his guilt, a daughter whose faith in her father has been shaken to its core, and astonishing revelations about his wife that make him fall in love with her for a second time. Sandrine’s Case is a searing novel about love lost and rediscovered, from one of our greatest chroniclers of the human heart.