The Tryst

1990, mass market paperback reprint edition, Pocket Books, NY. 212 pages. Terrifying suspense novel, with a definite feeling of creeping dread. "An extraordinary performance."

“Stunningly handled narrative. . . . Unnerving as rustling sheets in an unoccupied bed.” —The Guardian

“Brings to the sudden-death genre a subtle humanism and to the mainstream novel a vivid and dramatic narrative gift.” —Sunday Times [London]

“An extraordinary performance, absorbing, tantalizing, concretely realized, often funny, more often genuinely menacing.” —The Times (London)

“Stunning originality, a true gift for drawing remarkable characters, and a real feeling for historical evocation.” —Ruth Rendell

“[A] searingly unusual novel.” —The Observer