Self-Deliverance : Liber Novus Press : 9780990674719 : 0990674711 : 23 Jun 2015 : "An earnest...debut novel of ideas. This historical why-dunit...carries some real emotional weight." - Kirkus Reviews "Self-Deliverance is a novel that touches upon the historical and fictional/imaginative lives of its fascinating characters. Otterman writes with authority and elegance and this book has it all-desire, love, illness, intrigue, loss. Yet nothing here is gratuitous. The prose is descriptive and lovingly wrought." - Martha Rhodes, Founding Editor and Director of Four Way Books Arthur Koestler slouched in his living room armchair, dead with a whiskey glass in his hand. His wife Cynthia was found lying lifeless on the sofa, facing him. Two empty wine glasses, a jar of honey, and an empty bottle of Tuinal-a powerful sedative-stood between them on the coffee table. Double-suicide was suspected, but Westminster Court Coroner Jack Candrel was troubled. Why did Cynthia, twenty-five years younger