In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves-- symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen, menacing, grotesquely fat, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published.
But as she interviews Olive in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive's world of obsessive lies and love, nothing can stop Roz's pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth. Not the tidy suburbanites who would rather forget the murders, not an attack on her life-- not even the thought of what might happen if the Sculptress went free...
Margie P. (wkdgrma) from BRISTOL, FL wrote on 6/15/2006...
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Winner of the Edger Award this is a story of a prison interview of a supposed murderess. A creepy kind of book.
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Cherie B. (mootytooty) from NEW YORK, NY wrote on 3/15/2008...
A writer suffering from writers' block has the opportunity of interviewing and writing a book on the Sculptress who has been convicted of brutally murdering her own mother and sister.
A suspenseful, psychological story with plenty of twists.
Cassandra S. (coloradoreader) from GRAND JCT, CO wrote on 2/7/2008...
This was the first Minette Walters book I read and loved it.
Did she do it or didn't she? You'll keep wondering.....