You're playing with a child's life: The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets and into the heart of an elaborate and malevolent deception. With little to go on--a tight-lipped client, an anonymous letter, a mother who is supposed to be dead--Sader must rely on his wits to find the child even as he outraces the demons that dog him. Sleep with a Slander has been called the best hard-boiled private eye novel written by a woman--and one of the best written by anybody (1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction).