Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2010, is a literary work that intricately weaves elements of mystery and detective fiction. The story follows David Pepin, who has loved his wife, Alice, since their first meeting in a university seminar. After thirteen years of marriage, David finds himself grappling with the reality of her death, becoming the prime suspect in her suspicious demise, which leads to a complex investigation involving detectives with their own marital challenges.
Readers will encounter a narrative that delves into the complexities of love, guilt, and the nature of truth within relationships. The detectives, Ward Hastroll and Sam Sheppard, each bring their own experiences to the case, adding layers to the unfolding drama. As the investigation progresses, the story raises thought-provoking questions about the nature of affection and hatred, exploring whether it is possible to truly know another person. With 335 pages, this edition presents a profound exploration of the human heart, framed within a police procedural context.
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David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.
The detectives investigating Alice’s suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife.
Still, these men are in the business of figuring things out, even as Pepin’s role in Alice’s death grows ever more confounding when they link him to a highly unusual hit man called Mobius. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, completely? Are murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love?
Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order.
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