Bonita Faye is an engaging anti-heroine - alternately dark and dangerous, winsome and funny. Right from the get-go you know she's a killer. So it's not giving anything away to say that Margaret Moseley adeptly twists the crime novel's conventional wisdom, turning the murderess into the woman you root for. It's a taut little story with expert dialog, deft description and enough Southern Gothic charm to wilt the resistance of the most hardened reader.