New York: Rawson Associates Publishers, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in a wealthy town on the Connecticut coast, this is "a novel of escalating terror about a young killer who starts out to test the limits of parents' love for their children and ends up losing himself in the process." One of those books so awful, both in terms of the writing and the unfolding horrors, but where you still find yourself compelled to finish reading. Very uncommon in the hardcover first edition. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-892560614.