[...] says eminent California plastic surgeon Dr. John Taylor to his disgruntled wife, Deborah, setting in motion Alice LaPlante's exuberant psychological thriller about marriage, secrets and control. John can acquire and keep new spouses as if they were gems on an add-a-pearl necklace, but only if Deborah can orchestrate his life, keep her social status and stay his wife. [...] John's also butting heads with his colleagues, who want to force him to give up his work with disfigured children to focus on lucrative plastic-surgery clients. Is it any wonder, with all this tension, that one day the good doctor is found dead in a Palo Alto hotel room, a small puncture wound pointing to murder? [...] wife M.J. Taylor is a damaged fawn, a 30ish bookkeeper for a software company in Silicon Valley who viewed her six-year marriage to John as a kind of fortress against loneliness. An earth mother in long hippie skirts, her one sustaining pleasure is her lush garden, and the company of her brother Thomas, a loose cannon who had just hit up John for a $6,000 loan.
Reported by SFGate 41 minutes ago.
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