2012 Barry Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
2012 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (longlist)
2012 Macavity Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
2011 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction (second place)
Is the perfect murder the one you can't forget or the one you can't remember?
Dr. Jennifer White, a brilliant former surgeon in the early grips of Alzheimer's, is suspected of murdering her best friend, Amanda. Amanda's body was found brutally disfigured - with four of her fingers cut off in a precise, surgical manner. As the police pursue their investigation and Jennifer searches her own mind for fractured clues to Amanda's death, a portrait emerges of a complex relationship between two uncompromising, unsentimental women, lifelong friends who were at times each other's most formidable adversaries.
Genre: Mystery
Dr. Jennifer White, a brilliant former surgeon in the early grips of Alzheimer's, is suspected of murdering her best friend, Amanda. Amanda's body was found brutally disfigured - with four of her fingers cut off in a precise, surgical manner. As the police pursue their investigation and Jennifer searches her own mind for fractured clues to Amanda's death, a portrait emerges of a complex relationship between two uncompromising, unsentimental women, lifelong friends who were at times each other's most formidable adversaries.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"An electrifying book. Thought-provoking, humane, funny, tragic, a tour de force that can't be a first novel - and yet it is." - Ann Packer
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