John Milliken Thompson, I like the way you think. Your book was creepy and had just the right amount of "will he get caught" to keep me turning the pages.
The year is 1885. A woman is found dead & floating in the town's reservoir (darn it, now we have to drain this thing and start over so the town's water isn't contaminated - major pain in the a$$). She is pregnant - oopsie. There are a lot of questions about this death - was it murder or suicide? Of course the reader knows right off hand, but the motivation is missing. As we read on, the narrator trips up, becomes slightly unreliable. Did she slip, did he push her? We know he didn't want her or the baby...but what really happened that cold night at The Reservoir? Part of Thompson's genius...he leads you down the path, then muddles things up, then returns to the path. Man, what do I believe about what happened?
I'm still not sure, but I do believe that this is a pretty decent "unravel the mystery" book.
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