New York: Harper Collins, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in Spokane, which "brings back police detective Caroline Mabry and pits her in a battle of wits against a mysterious yet oddly familiar figure who is dragged into her precinct house one Friday night, seeming disoriented and wearing an eye patch.'I'd like to confess', he says. But he insists on writing out his confession in longhand. Over the next forty-eight hours, the stranger admits to far more than a crime. He confesses an entire life: a wry and haunting tale of poverty and politics, of obsession and revenge. And as he writes, Caroline pushes herself to near collapse, racing against the clock to investigate not merely a murder but the story of two men's darkly intertwined lives ... and to find the body that awaits her, somewhere in the city." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-060394390.