With over 900,000 copies in print, Robert Goolrick’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel A Reliable Wife is a riveting historical story of love, madness, and obsession that tells the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman who advertises for “a reliable wife”; Catherine Land, the deceptive woman who responds; and Antonio Moretti, Truitt’s bastard son. Lushly romantic, yet dark and mysterious, this intoxicating debut—which moves from Wisconsin to Italy to Chicago and to St. Louis—is a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, played out in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.

Author biography

In addition to A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick is the author of the acclaimed memoir The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in a small Virginia town.