The Staircase Review: Was It Murder, Or An Accident?  

On an unassuming street in the historic district of Forest Hills, Durham, California, Kathleen Peterson is found unconscious at the foot of her home’s staircase. The year is 2001, and it is only fifteen days before Christmas. She is forty-eight years old and is announced dead on arrival, but her family, and her husband, insist that it was an accident and not a murder. Her husband is the American novelist Michael Peterson, best known for his works based on his time in Vietnam, where he worked with the US Department of Defense.

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