London: Macmillan, (1998). Hardcover first edition - The first psychological thriller by this New Zealand born author, who has lived most of her life in Dublin, where she is an Irish television talk-show producer. "Shortly after she arrives in Dublin to care for her dying mother, Margaret's daughter, Mary, is brutally tortured and murdered . . . and a once-brilliant, now-boozy cop catches Mary's killer but botches the case against him and raises the possibility of his serving just a short sentence." 376 pp. ISBN: 0-333729889.