Single Wife

Grace Brookman’s husband is missing. He wasn’t kidnapped or murdered (she’s fairly certain); he just seems to have run away from home. He got up one morning, and with an offhand “Gracie, I’ll be back in a little while,” he was gone. Laz had left before, but this time, when several weeks pass and he doesn’t return, Grace copes with the situation by pretending to family and friends that he’s still around. At first, Grace covers for Laz in little ways: rumpling the sheets on his side of the bed …