Jennys marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old peoples home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jennys - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lovers husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of Jennys marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old peoples home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jennys - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lovers husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love.