The Sculptress

Summary

Journalist Rosalind Leigh reluctantly agrees to write about Olive Martin, a grotesquely overweight woman imprisoned for butchering her mother and sister, and slowly comes to doubt the confession that put her away. Walters builds a tense psychological study in which the line between guilt and innocence keeps shifting and the investigator becomes as compromised as her subject. The novel earned wide acclaim for its dark atmosphere and its refusal to offer easy answers.