New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Journalist's first novel, based on the premise "Can a person witness a murder over the phone?" Evelyn Wade is a shy, but determined, grandmotherly figure who is a thousand miles from the crime she overhears in her job as a telephone surveyer, but she sets out to find the murderer,following a trail through the dark world of cocaine, stolen cars and random sex, just as the murderer sets out to track her down. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-555841406.