In addition to those novels about Everett McClellan and Maria Wyeth, Run River and Play It as It Lays, this author wrote about a woman named Inez who marries Senator Harry Victor in the 1984 novel Democracy.  
One of this author's novels centers on a farmer who murders his wife's lover, Ryder Channing, before shooting himself.  Another of this author's novels centers on an actress who drives to Nevada in a stolen car before being visited by her friend B Z, who overdoses on sleeping pills.  In addition to those novels about Everett McClellan and Maria Wyeth, Run River and Play It as It Lays, this author wrote about a woman named Inez who marries Senator Harry Victor in the 1984 novel Democracy.  In her most recent book, this author wrote about the illness of her daughter Quintana and the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.  FTP, name this writer of A Book of Common Prayer  who recently won a National Book Award for her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
One of this author's novels centers on a farmer who murders his wife's lover, Ryder Channing, before shooting himself.  
Joan Didion