As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sallys father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sallys work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But its not so easy being Sallys friend anymore, and soon Joanne finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and violence. When the director of a local private gallery is brutally murdered, Joanne finds that the past she and Sally share was far more complicated, and far more sordid, than she had realized.From the Paperback edition.