Description
When a former patient files a medical-board complaint claiming she slept with Pen Ruskin’s husband, a beloved concierge doctor in suburban Denver, he swears she’s lying, and then she’s found dead with his name on her pill bottle. Pen catches him lying about where he was that night, but the truth is worse than murder: he has an alibi, and it’s a woman he can’t name.
Genre: Thriller > Domestic thriller, a marriage thriller with a murder at its center
Tropes: Doctor husband with a perfect reputation · Affair · Lies that make an innocent man look guilty · The other woman’s POV · Wife who investigates · The helpful ally who isn’t
Target length: 80,000–88,000 words (about 300–320 pages)
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