A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Peter Swanson
- Language: English
- Genre: Thriller / Suspense
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They’d met the way couples met nowadays, online, paired up because they
were both self-proclaimed book nerds, both seeking a stable monogamous
relationship without kids. He’d been married before, just after college, for
three years. It had been an amicable divorce (according to Alan) and there
hadn’t been any children. He said he had no idea what his ex-wife was even
doing with her life now—they’d lost touch completely.
Alan and Martha, after a few introductory texts, had met for dinner, Alan
driving to Portsmouth from his home outside of Scarborough in Maine. The
best part about dinner that night—besides the truffle fries—was that there
were no awkward silences. Alan was chatty, and funny, and
unselfconscious.
Martha didn’t exactly feel romantic stirrings, but she did
have fun. And later that night she told herself that having fun while eating
in a restaurant with a strange man was no small thing. She hadn’t dated
anyone in more than ten years. And she hadn’t had sex for five years, not
since a brief and awkward coupling at her fifteen-year college reunion. So
she told herself to say yes to Alan Peralta, yes to further dinner dates, yes to
sex if that was something he was interested in, yes to being in a relationship
with him.
And that was what she did. She kept saying yes. It wasn’t hard to do.
Alan was very sweet, easy to be with. Yeah, he made a lot of dumb jokes,
but he knew they were dumb. And when they eventually got around to
having sex, that part was nice, too. She wasn’t exactly attracted to Alan,
who was raw and bony with deep-set eyes, but he had a grace about him,
and at least he didn’t want to do anything strange in bed, except for some
occasional dirty talk whispered into her ear.
Martha would have been happy to simply stay in a committed
relationship, but Alan’s mother was a strict Catholic, and the most
important person in Alan’s life, so during a weekend away to Kennewick on
the southern shore of Maine, Alan lowered himself to a knee while they
were on a cliffside walk and asked Martha to marry him.
It was a moment
that Martha had long believed would never happen to her, any kind of
proposal, let alone such an old-fashioned one, and she had been filled with a
surge of gratitude and love that propelled her to tell him yes right away.
Toward the end of the trip, however, Alan said that he’d noticed she’d been
quieter since the proposal, and she’d had to admit that he was right.
“Maybe it feels too sudden,” she said. “Give me one week.”
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