New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. SIGNED hardcover first edition - British author's eight novel, and praised as his most powerful, complex and subtle. "After decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, a murderer has finally died of natural causes, no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, has been assigned the task of guarding her body in the hospital morgue. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has taken and to discover why it is that on this dark night of the soul the reviled murderer seems to speak to him directly. . . a gripping novel of crime, punishment, fear, and temptation." SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-307265846.