Alice LaPlante

Turn of Mind

  • Turn of Mind

  • Jennifer White can't remember whether she murdered her best friend


    Dr Jennifer White, a once brilliant surgeon, is slowly losing her mind.

    Amanda, her best friend, is found stabbed to death. Four of her fingers have been expertly removed.

    Suspicion immediately falls on Jennifer.

    How can she prove her innocence when even she doesn't know if she's the murderer?

Alice LaPlante is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and teaches writing there as well as at San Francisco State University. She has been published in Epoch, Southwestern Review, and other literary journals, and her non-fiction has appeared in Forbes ASAP, Discover, BusinessWeek. She has written four books of nonfiction and a novel, Turn of Mind (2011).

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