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Vanish in an Instant

`One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fiction` Laura Lippman, author of SunburnVirginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and covered in someone else`s blood?When Claude Margolis` body is found a quarter of a mile away with half-a-dozen stab wounds to the neck, suddenly Virginia doesn`t seem such a nice girl after all. Her only hope is Meecham, the cynical small-town lawyer hired as her defence. But how can he believe in Virginia`s innocence when even she can`t be sure what happened that night? And when the answer seems to fall into his lap, why won`t he just walk away?