The Rule of Three

Makes me think of various other titles with low numbers in their appellations, notably, The Four Agreements, and, of course, the universal principle that suggests whatever a person set loose upon the world shall be returned in triplicate. Basic premise common across a variety of belief systems.

But into the novel?

“We were trying to live outside the vortex of tabloid journalism and rampant online conspiracy theories, each one more absurd than the one before it.” Page 65.

Aren’t we all? Two dead husbands, two dead and a third on life-support, in the opening sequences. Three wives.

Infidelity and mortality.

From the title through the opening sequences, lifestyles of the rich and puerile, it all fits. Still, much fun along the way, and the story-telling itself was broken into pint-sized chapters from different characters, all telling the same tale.

Tight narrative thread, but by the halfway point, pretty sure it was Orient Express in framework.

Still, don’t mess with the sisters.