“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… It was I who killed her.”
Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate Richard Mason. Your typical murder mystery The Drowning People is not, for we are given the identity of the killer–the who–immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is why–why did 70-year-old James Farrell mu…
