Months after killing his lover off the rugged Alaskan coast, Tim Cornish believes he has gotten away with the crime, until a series of ominous letters informs him that someone knows what he has done. Reprint.
Praise for Barbara Vine's most recent novel, Anna's Book
"Absorbing, complexly crafted ... a brilliantly executed tour de force."
-- Wall Street Journal
"Anna's Book is a captivating story within a captivating story, a first-rate study of class, gender, and character, a courtroom drama and an un-put-downable page-turner."
-- Susan Isaacs, Washington Post Book World
"Louche and adventurous ... a mystery carefully laid out and ingeniously solved."
-- Village Voice Literary Supplement
Praise for Barbara Vine
"When Ruth Rendell, already the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, launched a second byline, Barbara Vine, she actually stepped up her writing level."
-- Time
"This gifted author's ability to draw us so completely into her vividly realized, guilt-ridden worlds that they seem to meld, seamlessly, with our own is what makes her one of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world."
-- Joyce Carol-Oates, New York Times Book Review
"Simply put, [she] is one of the greatest writers ever."
-- Scott Turow