that role is NOT for Meg Ryan. That was a great book and it was supposed to put Susannah Moore on the map, but so far, no. Maybe the movie will help, although a bad version of the book won't help sell books. Or will it?

Moore has a very dark streak in her writing. Also, for Hawaii fans, she sets many (most?) of her books there.

I like her, but I can only read a little at a time, and I haven't ever been able to re-read In The Cut because the ending was too powerful/disturbing for me.