The Sculptress (Picador Classic, 71) - Softcover

A gripping read * Publishers Weekly * Riveting -- The Kansas City Star Creepy but compulsive . . . hard to put down * The New York Times Book Review * A dark, superbly plotted tale guaranteed to keep readers up most of the night * The Denver Post * Striking . . . Walters brings a shivery mastery to the old-fashioned British whodunit, with plotting as twisted as the characters' secrets * Kirkus *

This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep. `It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed . . . Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.' The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname `The Sculptress'. Journalist Rosalind Leigh knew this much before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life - for ever?