The 'taster' in intriguing. The suggestion is that the American idyll of a suburban family household is about to be shattered. If this is set in the 'Fifties or 'Sixties (as the cover suggests), then the role of women in a marriage was rather different than it is today. Keeping house and home running smoothly and keeping the man of the house happy was the function of most housewives. Married women going out to work was less common. If a woman suddenly was to lose her raison d'être, she might feel she had nothing. This is what, from first impression, I think this book is going to be about.
The cover, showing a neat, well equipped domestic scene, with the suggestion (the bloody knife and shattered plate) of something dramatic having happened is tantalising.
The cover, showing a neat, well equipped domestic scene, with the suggestion (the bloody knife and shattered plate) of something dramatic having happened is tantalising.