Rose Madder

Hardcover, 420 pages

English language

Published 1995 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-85869-9
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
1028242358

View on OpenLibrary

2 stars (1 review)

From the Flap:

Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight. She uses her husband's ATM card to buy a bus ticket, determined to lose herself in a place where Norman won't find her. She'll worry about all the rest later.

Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things start to happen. Meeting Bill Steiner is one; and finding a junk-shop painting is another. It may be bad art but it's perfect for her new apartment-and somehow, it seems to want her as much as she wants it.

Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Her husband is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He's very good at finding people. The fact that he's losing his …

40 editions

Subjects

  • Runaway wives -- Fiction
  • Revenge -- Fiction