The Drowning People — Richard Mason

My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success. Of course I know that she did nothing o f the kind.... It was I who killed her.
With this startling confession of murder, James Farrell, the seventy-year-old narrator of

THE DROWNING PEOPLE, takes the reader on a long journey into the past, a maelstrom of deeply buried secrets and betrayals, that reveals the ferocious, frightening power of first love. For it was decades ago that James and a young woman named Ella Harcourt fell cataclysmically in love--and unwittingly set off a chain of events that would reverberate violently for years to come.