![]() “I have to let this story go,” Jean says at the beginning of “The Weight of Water.” “It is with me all the time now, a terrible weight.” ![]() Once again, the author of “Eden Close” and “Where or When” tells her story by an outside researcher-this time, a photojournalist named Jean-who is pulled into the ambiguities of a supposedly locked-up case and haunted by the details she unearths. Anita Shreve is fascinated by crimes of passion, by what the journalist in her 1991 novel, “Strange Fits of Passion,” described as “the draw of the unnatural act unfolding naturally.” Once again, in her fifth novel, heinous crimes-incest and murder most foul-are presented in such a way as to heighten our sympathy for the perpetrator and make us question our moral certitudes. ![]()
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