"The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York' Central Park one day, red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy - except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. Then they found the body in the tree."--back cover.
