When his wife dies in a fall from a tree in their backyard, linguist Paul Iverson is wild with despair. In the days that follow, Paul becomes certain that Lexy's death was no accident. Strange clues have been left behind: unique, personal messages that only she could have left and that he is determined to decipher. So begins Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth, as he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Is this the project of a madman? Or does Lorelei really have something to tell him about the last afternoon of a woman he only thought he knew? At the same time, Paul obsessively recalls the early days of his love for Lexy and the ups and downs of life with the brilliant, sometimes unsettling woman who became his wife.
Pamela S. (Cosmina) from SAN CRISTOBAL, NM wrote on 11/4/2008...
The reader of this novel, Erik Singer, was just great. He moved the story along and gave the characters great voices, without seeming like he was even working at it. The story is very interesting in the spoken form because the descriptions of objects and expressions are so well written. I could even see the expressions of Lorelei, the Ridgeback dog, in my minds eye. Part love story, part mystery, part autobiographical novel. Great for commuting time.