Overview: Editorial Review

It is the end of the millennium. A relaxed and anticipated summer on Manhattan's East Side turns into a nightmare for the impressionable and vulnerable Sally. In this tightly woven novel, she is suspected of having murdered her closest friend, Elsbeth, with whom she has had a mysterious and absorbing relationship. Traumatized by the detectives investigating the murder, and by her own confused recollections, Sally experiences subtle reality shifts, as if she existed, simultaneously, on two or more fault lines and could not always trust what she thought she saw or heard. She began to doubt small, ordinary things. Keller's lean, taut, and unsettling prose enhances the simmering suspense that permeates this novel, as she fuses the elements of a Rashomon-type narrative with a Hitchcock classic.