Don’t Tell Me How to Die: A Novel

“What begins as a mystery-tinted character study transforms into a full-bore thriller with a spate of jaw-dropping twists that recast the entire narrative. Readers should be prepared to stay up all night.” — Publishers Weekly “A razor-sharp domestic thriller about a dying woman’s desperate mission to handpick her husband’s next wife—and she’ll stop at nothing to get the job done. Darkly funny and relentlessly suspenseful Karp displays every skill as one of the greatest storytellers of our generation.” —Joe Donahue host of The Book Show on NPR I have one thing to do before I die. And time is running out. I had it all: a fantastic husband two great kids an exciting career. And then at the age of forty-three I found out I would be dead before my next birthday. My mother also died young. I was seventeen and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk t