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Faust . . . has crafted a tidy Hitchcockian tale that will be widely enjoyed.Library JournalA man brutally murders another in a peculiar hunting incidentand then proceeds to assume his persona, his life, and his wife.When a petty argument with an arrogant stranger deep in a Wisconsin forest over who killed a deer escalates to murder, playwright Andrew Nevilles life becomes a tangled web of deceitand self-deception. Back in hometown Chicago, Neville attends the funeral of the man hes murdered and meets his widow, Claudia, and her 3-year-old son. Neville gradually insinuates himself into the widows confidence and conceives a plan to seize the victims lifehis wife, his son, his work, his wealth, and even his persona and appearance. Neville will become he man he killed. It appears nothing can stop himexcept the obnoxious Chicago PI whos determined to prove that Neville and Claudia murdered her husband together.