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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 paper. When his editor assigns him to write a piece on the Porter murder, he has no idea why. He doesn't do crime stories. Yes, the Porters were major benefactors to the arts, but . . . he doesn't do crime stories. And what needs to be said about this one? Beth Porter admitted to the murder, which means Phil Porter was either abusing her, cheating on her, or both.
But once Devin starts working on the story, he finds himself drawn inexorably into it. By all indications, the Porters had a dream marriage to go along with their privileged lives. There's no indication that Phil is a bad guy or that Beth has a homicidal bone in her body. And yet she admitted to killing her husband before going completely silent. Which leads to one enormously elusive question.
Why?
Devin finds himself obsessing over the story, causing him to redefine everything he thought he knew about relationships, secrets, and the inner workings of the human heart. The fate of Beth and Phil Porter has gotten into his soul, even affecting his romance with a woman with whom he is getting very serious. His research takes him places no where else is going, because Devin is driven by a relentless need: the need to know why.
At once a suspense story and a love story, Why She Killed Him takes readers into the hearts of a deeply relatable, deeply complex cast of characters to tell a tale that will keep you wondering until the very end.
Lou Aronica is the author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Forever Year and the national bestsellers Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home, and Leaves. He collaborated on the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson) and Limitless (with Jim Kwik), and the USA Today bestsellers The Greatest You (with Trent Shelton) and The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille). Aronica is a long-term book publishing veteran, and he is a past president of the writers organization Novelists Inc. He is the father of four children and lives with his wife in Stamford, CT.
Steven Womack began his first novel when he was eighteen-years-old. A short eighteen years later, he finally sold one. His first published novel, Murphy's Fault, was the only debut mystery on the 1990 New York Times Notable Book List. Since then, he has published ten more novels, winning both the Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as receiving multiple nominations for major mystery awards. He is the author of the Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Harry James Denton series, which includes Dead Folks' Blues, Torch Town Boogie, Way Past Dead, Nobody's Chain Lays Straight, A Manual Of Murder, and Dirty Money. A scriptwriter as well, Womack co-wrote the screenplays for Proudheart, which was nominated for the CableAce Award, and Volcano: Fire On The Mountain, an ABC television movie that was one of the most-watched television movies of the year. Womack lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where for twenty-five years he anchored the screenwriting program at the Watkins Film School of Watkins College of Art. He also served five years as Chair of The Film School. When the college closed in May, 2020, he was the longest serving faculty member at the college. A licensed pilot, Womack loves to fly and scuba dive in his spare time. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any spare time since 2001.
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