The Tenant And The Motive (2005) - Plot & Excerpts
It was a one-storey, rectangular building, long and low, with an expanse of cream-coloured walls, interrupted only by the pale wooden front door, and a big picture window on the right. In front of the house were clumps of hydrangeas and chrysanthemums and an ample lawn watered by constant sprinklers. Two slate pathways cut across it: one led directly to the front door, the other, parallel to the first, ended at a shed or garage made of dark wood, with a red door, in front of which were parked two cars of European design. Scanlan’s wife came out to meet him on the path. She was wearing a very tight black dress. Ash-grey highlights lightened her short, straight hair here and there. Her hands had more rings than fingers. Whenever he saw Joan, Mario reflected that years of shared life eventually conferred on couples a similarity that had something depraved about it: Joan moved her hands with the same quick, almost nervous precision with which Scanlan moved his. They also shared that sort of resignation that softens the faces of people who’ve given up the struggle to camouflage the ravages of time and taken refuge in the consolation of a dignified old age.
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