 The book was published by Dutton, won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and was a 1994 WFA nominee

In Mill Walk, a caribbean island mostly inhabited by wealthy American and German expats, a little boy named Tom Pasmore views an article about a woman named Jeanine Thielman who was murdered and then dumped in a lake.A few years later, in 1957, Tom takes a ride on a milk cart from his palatial home to a slum street called Calle Burleigh.There he hears the crying of an animal and, searching for this animal, finds a teenaged boy slightly older than him named Jerry and his older sister Robyn.