What an odd book.
Initiall I thought it was a murder mystery: did he kill his wife or not? But no.
It is the story of three marriages and weirdly rehashes the Sam Sheppherd story in great detail and still leaves you wondering if Sam did it or not.
Then again, when I finished the book and reflected on it, I wondered: was this entire thing a fantasy - was I reading the protagonist's book all along?
I don't have an answer and would probably have to re-read the last third of the book which I'm not anxious to do.
It held my attention, though and I love to read about unsolved mysteries. I was only four years old when the Sheppherd murder occurred but I watched David Jansen in the Fugitive religiously!