Annal:1994 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 Edgar–Novel winner
- 1994 Macavity-Novel winner
- Score: 20.44
In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves— symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen, menacing, grotesquely fat, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh’s only hope of getting a new book published.
But as she interviews Olive in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress’s confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive’s world of obsessive lies and love, nothing can stop Roz’s pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth.…
