Publication: Simon & Schuster, 1999, New York
First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Edgar Award nominee for best first mystery novel of 1999. A woman is found bathed in blood calmly eating grapes, as the bodies of her infant son and husband lie close by. There is no question she has killed them, but was she criminally responsible, or certifiably insane? Is she a pitiful and psychotic person or a shrewd and conniving evil human being?
Inventory Number: 18910