pp 343 Hardback with paper dust jacket, both in very good condition; 'jessie' is written on the inside cover - otherwise pages are clean; slight edgewear; white board with silver title on red spine; author's name imprinted on front cover in redIn Long Island's tony Shore Haven, Rosie Meyers makes an unsettling discovery in her kitchen just after her 25th wedding anniversary bash: the body of her husband, peremptorily dispatched with a butcher's knife. The 40-something ``suburban schoolteacher with a bit of a Brooklyn accent'' fears--accurately, as matters turn out--that she will become the odds-on favorite for prime suspect, and goes on the lam to prove her innocence.