Bedelia — Vera Caspary

Bedelia was everything to please a man. She was small and cuddly, never argued or lost her temper, and she made an adoring wife to Charles Horst, who had met her at Colorado Springs and had taken her back home to Connecticut as his bride. But beneath all her charm Bedelia concealed a grim secret -- a secret that was to sweep Charles and herself into a deadly maelstrom.

The tension between Charles and Bedelia mounts in the stillness of a New England blizzard as this powerful novel unfolds -- the story of a psychopath as fluffy as eiderdown, a kitten whose claws are steel, an amoral woman who wants love and money and is willing to kill for them!