New York: Scribner's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense, by this award winning author - when their mother dies in childbirth and their father loses his sanity and retreats to an upstairs bedroom, the two older children learn how to take care of the younger ones - and how to lie, to keep the family together. But then they discover a body in the backyard. . . 214 pp. ISBN: 0-684-197286.