The Importance of Specificity in a Marriage Story

The query letter clocks in at 277 words which is very great in terms of length. The paragraph that essentially delivers the stakes, it's the one that starts with but she couldn't have foreseen what she would soon discover about her husband. That paragraph is basically questions or could she? Is he lying? Is she misremembering? Is she criticizing? Is he manipulating her? One question is fine but we don't need all these questions especially when they are on the generic side. I guess what I'm saying is that I think that specific paragraph needs to be more grounded. What exactly did she discover? This probably happened so early on that it's fair for us to know and what are

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