Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia pretty, ultra
femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she
wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't
believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new
neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws
of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her
wake.
Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her
characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the
woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns
male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.