Author Description

<p><b>“Unputdownable....This novel is anything but predictable. The female characters are forces of nature, and the plot twists are deliciously demented, a la <i>Gone Girl</i> and <i>Big Little Lies</i>.” —<i>People</i></b><br><b><br>You can’t be married to someone without sometimes wanting to kill them...</b><br><br><b><i>As Long As We Both Shall Live</i> is JoAnn Chaney’s wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets...</b><br><br>“My wife! I think she’s dead!” Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren’t hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident.<br><br>But Matt’s first wife also died in suspicious circumstances. And when the police pull a body out of the river, they have a lot more questions for Matt. <br><br>Detectives Loren and Spengler want to know if Matt is a grieving, twice-unlucky husband or a cold-blooded murderer. They dig into the couple’s lives to see what they can unearth. And they find that love’s got teeth, it’s got claws, and once it hitches you to a person, it’s tough to rip yourself free.<br><br>So what happens when you’re done making it work?</p>