The release date for the English version of 'The Weight of Water' by
Anita Shreve is Jan 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Note from the librarian: This is an alternative cover version.
Jean, a newspaper photographer, investigates the graphic and shocking 1873 double ax murder of two women as a journalistic tie-in to a violent contemporary double homicide. (Which one, you guess?) She comes onto a stack of documents that seem to provide an eyewitness account of the killings. The storyline alternates between the eyewitness's account and Jean's inner battle with mistrust and jealousies as her marriage falters. A densely detailed book.