First published 1996
Holly Troy creates art from fragments of herself. The daughter of a classics scholar lives with dissociative identity disorder, her mind housing personalities named after Greek mythological figures: Nemesis, Pandora, the three Fates, Cronos, Eris, and Eurydice. A frightened five-year-old child also emerges among her alternate selves. When gallery owner Bonnie Gill turns up dead in a garden surrounded by Holly's sculptures, Holly faces a terrifying blank in her memory. She cannot recall her whereabouts during the killing. Worse, she doesn't know which personality was in control that night. Detective Orson Cheever has spent two decades solving murders through logic and evidence. Now he must navigate a case where his primary witness shifts between a scared child, the father of the gods, and three sisters who control human destiny. Cheever realizes he must decode Holly's fractured psyche before he can identify Bonnie Gill's killer. The investigation forces him to abandon his methodical approach and venture into the spaces between myth and reality, past and present.
Genres: fiction, suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dissociative-identity, unreliable-narrator
304 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster
Content warnings: mental-illness