With lively wit and breezy sophistication, novelist Evelin Sullivan tackles the most pervasive of human sins, using history and mythology, anecdote and analysis to discover the truth about lying.

The self-analysis of Paul Avery, a psychologist imprisoned for murder.

Begun as a parody of the detective novel, the tantalizing fragment shows stylistic incongruities that track the author's attempt to tell his own version of his troubled end.

During the course of the novel the characters' motives are progressively unmasked, and the reader is led to consider just how much we can ever know about one another, or about ourselves.

Psychological suspense featuring four protagonists: a woman, her husband, the husband's friend and a scientist for whom the woman works.