New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this playwright, a story of psychological suspense set in the world of art and money - "For artist Faith Cromwell, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on the daughter who was brutally murdered in the house a decade earlier . . [this] explores a world where evil tarnishes privilege, and nothing is what it appears to be." Nominated for the Edgar award. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525935290.