An interesting look at how a person can snap and become a killer. Not loaded with excuses, most of the criminals in this admit their guilt and reasons for it. A lot of it is the degradation of status by other people - in the case of the main character, David, a woman at a wedding treated him like staff by imperiously ordering him to go get her a drink. He dwelled on the fact that she didn't even say please and then with alcohol and an illicit affair being revealed, he lost all reason and control. Then he covered it up and insisted on his innocence. In the end though, everyone knew and there was a really gut-wrenching conversation with his wife in which they turn on each other like angry dogs. Funny how love and hate are so close in the human heart. ( )