{"product_id":"four-wives-and-five-deaths-of-richard-milford","title":"Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour wives. Five murders. One very bad, very dead husband.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich Milford is dead. At last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Black town of Newville, Oklahoma, Rich Milford has spent his life doing exactly as he pleases. A moonshiner, womaniser and self-styled prophet, he runs his eccentric household with rigid rules, strange beliefs and casual cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow he's been found dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt his funeral, the town gathers to speculate. The obvious suspects are the women closest to Rich: his four wives - Lally, Sophronia, Georgette and Vivianne - along with Alberta, the cook who has held the Milford household together for decades. Each of these women has a story to tell. Each believes, with absolute certainty, that she is the one who killed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their accounts unfold, they reveal a household thick with secrets: forbidden love, suppressed rage, poisoned pies, stolen money, superstition, desire and grief. With each woman's story, the truth splinters further, and the idea of a single version of events begins to collapse. Threaded through all of this is the voice of Newville itself - a sharp, gossipy, communal chorus that watches, judges and ultimately decides what justice will look like.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nafissa Thompson-Spires","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67792697983154,"sku":"9781784741877","price":430.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781784741877.jpg?v=1792804056","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/four-wives-and-five-deaths-of-richard-milford","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}