New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A pastoral hamlet in upstate New York is the "backdrop for a senseless crime: two brothers, surprised while robbing the summer home of a well-to-do professor from Connecticut, kill the man's gifted son, and proceed to avoid detection - and their own culpability - -by becoming involved in a depressing series of squabbles with family and townfolk. The portrait of Van, a Vietnam vet, is chilling evidence of the excesses a closed society will abide from one of its own." (Publishers Weekly). Cover praise from Cynthia Ozick who calls this a book that "rocks and shocks in the manner of Flannery O'Connor." 244 pp. ISBN: 0-670825808.