Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, set in California's East Bay, and introducing social worker Louise Daniel, "in her sixties, recently divorced, harried and always late to work." When a co-worker is killed by an apparent accident, but no one else finds it suspicious, she begins her own investigation. SIGNED on the half title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-88739289x.