A Dark Adapted Eye - 1986 * Edgar Award

No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over a family secret. England in the 1950's, in Essex, was not kind to women who erred, so they had to fight it out behind closed curtains, using every weapon they had. In this case, murder.

A Fatal Inversion - 1987 *Gold Dagger Award

In the hot summer of 1976, a group of five young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. This is a huge house. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetary. Which woman? Whose child?