The Sculptress [Paperback]

"A dark, superbly plotted tale guaranteed to keep readers up most of the night."--"The Denver Post"
 
"Creepy but compulsive . . . hard to put down."--"The New York Times Book Review""" "Riveting."--"The Kansas City Star" "A shocker of a second novel."--"Detroit Free Press" "Intricate, intriguing, and tantalizingly ambiguous . . . Ratifies [Minette Walters's emergence into the front ranks of today's mystery writers."--"The San Diego Union-Tribune" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year

‘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’. This much journalist Rosalind Leigh knew 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? ‘This is one of my books of the year’ Sunday Times ‘A devastating effective novel’ Observer ‘Awesomely accomplished . . . The plot twists and grips, like an octopus' Daily Telegraph

Minette Walters is England’s bestselling female crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.