Mirror, Mirror

A good Samaritan finds he’s brought a violent criminal into his home, while a victim of mistaken identity gets drawn into murder in this climactic volume of pseudonymous suspense from National Book Award winner and 6-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates.

This omnibus includes:

SNAKE EYES: Lawyer serving pro bono gets violent killer off Death Row – but when the killer is paroled and moves into the lawyer’s neighborhood, he brings destruction in his wake.

“Chloe”: Girl from disadvantaged/criminal family moves in w/ well-off family, later claims father sexually abused her.

YOU CAN’T CATCH ME: When one man is mistaken for another by a woman desperate for help, he finds himself drawn into a sinister web of murder and deception.

“The Sunken Woman”: Enigmatic woman’s plea for help thrusts man into dreamlike demimonde.