Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co-worker Nancy Sarah is shot and found in her bedroom by one of her past flames Donald. Desperate to clear any evidence of Donald's presence at the scene for her own infatuations Nancy finds herself as the key suspect when she is discovered in the apartment. As the real killer uses the situation to their advantage Bennett crafts a tense and nuanced story through flashbacks to Sarah's life and loves in this Gold-Dagger-award-winning story of deceit and murder.

Part of the British Library Crime Classics series.