New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1997). The author's very highly praised first book, a novel about two young people, both looking for a new start in life, who meet at a hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin district - "the story of two perfectly normal, intelligent, attractive, educated people who somehow become killers." Praise from John Barth, Pinckney Benedict, Madison Smartt Bell (who called it a thinking person's thriller) and more. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-156005468.