{"product_id":"mr-peanut-9780307454904","title":"Mr. Peanut","description":"A\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNoteable Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eMr. Peanut \u003c\/i\u003eis a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid 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 \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003ehis \u003c\/i\u003ewife. 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, \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAre 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Ross lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and their two daughters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.adam-ross.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460096692498,"sku":"9780307454904","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_827ab992-0064-4952-97b5-bf155465d513.jpg?v=1730026795","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mr-peanut-9780307454904","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}