New York: Delacorte, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collaboration between these two successful and well-established authors - Publishers Weekly comments that it "mingles a suspenseful plot with homely domestic details and a perfectly calibrated sense of atmosphere and place - a small Minnesota town in the grip of bone-chilling winter. . . When charming psychopath Nick Uhler returns to his hometown of St. Cloud after a 12-year absence, he precipitates a series of deaths and initiates an irrevocable process in which old, unsavory secrets are revealed." 300 pp. ISBN: 0-440500699.