London: Macmillan, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her tenth novel - a "complex tale of murder and deception. In 1970, 20-year-old Howard Stamp is convicted of brutally killing his 57-year-old grandmother with a carving knife; three years later, he commits suicide in prison. In 2002, London anthropologist Jonathan Hughes includes the Stamp case in his book, Disordered Minds, which examines infamous miscarriages of justice. Meanwhile, an elderly councilor living in Stamp's hometown of Bournemouth, has come to believe in Stamp's innocence herself and asks Jonathan for help in clearing the young man's name." (Publishers Weekly) SIGNED on the title page. 423 pp. ISBN: 1-405034165.