Admit to Murder

Twelve years after 28-year-old Louise Vaughan disappears from the streets of her village, truths behind sundry human deceptions begin to come to light. ``This tightly crafted, wise little book is mainly, in the end, about people, some of whom . . . are capable of malice but most of whom have the courage to commit themselves completely to love and thus survive its tragedies,'' said PW. (Sept.)