I was looking forward to this release. The reviews were good. I love a good mystery/murder lit read. And after the most enjoyable experience reading Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone, the Missouri connection is a draw, but so far the author's habit of over-descriptiveness and coining of goofy phrases (Mytwingo) is driving me nuts. I debated whether or not to continue. I usually bail very early on if I don't like the writer's style. But I do like that the story is being told through alternating narration, the husbands experience in the present and the wife's diary entries in the past. Guess I will suffer through the extra clutter of spice of dribbled bourbon, the tang of old popcorn, the sister's warm and crinkly voice, the gray-suited world of investment banking, rocket-science brains and rodeo spirits, etc etc etc, all crammed in one or two paragraphs. Hopefully I will be rewarded;>

PS I was not.