Owl/Henry Holt, New York, 1995, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-8050-4233-4.  MMPB, 256 pages.  Unread copy; some edge and cover wear, price sticker on rear wrap; pages lightly tanned.  ‘Lisa Franklin was beautiful and wild, master of her freewheeling life, seducing lovers among the high-powered elite of San Francisco as well as her feckless housemates – male and female.  But she was not the master of her death, a brutal murder that left her body tangled among the beach grass like so much rubbish.  Lt. Frank Hastings sighs at the terrible waste of a young life even as he realizes that Franklin may have been a vengeful blackmailer with too many enemies.  Now he must unravel her surprisingly poignant and insightful journals to reconstruct the murderer’s devastating path.’ (from rear wrap)