Why She Killed Him: A Novel

On a late summer night in 2007, Phil and Beth Porter celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary with their wealthy Greenwich, CT friends. Then, they went home and made love with the passion of two people connected on a nearly cellular level. After which, Beth gave Phil a cocktail of drugs that killed him and then called the police to let her know that she'd done so. It was the last thing she would say on the topic.

Devin Greene is a rising star at a local arts-and-entertainment weekly...