New York: Putnam, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 7th novel by this Edgar award winning writer - this story of a woman who for 20 years believed that a neighbor of hers (a black woman known as Mad Annie because she suffered from Tourette's syndrome ) was murdered was described in one review as 'an attack whose blistering power is only intensified by its patient revelation of layer upon layer of deception by every last party to the outrage. Agatha Christie with the gloves off: a slow-motion train wreck of a novel that not only confirms Walters's kinship with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell, but displays a ferocity far beyond any of their recent work.'SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim page. ISBN: 0-399-147330.