“Williams and Wyman have put together a first-rate suspense. They draw the reader in, and hold them with their vivid descriptions of ritualistic goings-on in this New York theater, even as Lee Fairchild is struggling to keep her dream afloat. This mystery is so character driven that it is easy to suspect any of the theater company...they all have something to hide. But it is Lee's ultimate struggle with lone-liness and an overloaded professional struggle that brings the story to its shocking climax. Don't start this wonderful story if you have something else to do, because this fantastic plot will win the fight!”

Co-written with Eileen Wyman, Butcher of Dreams is set in New York's squalid Hell's Kitchen. It's 1985, and a fledgling theater company is trying to get through its first season without going bankrupt... or getting killed.

Lee's call to a temp agency has brought her Michael Day, a smooth-talking young man who insists he has plenty of money to buy her lavish gifts. Is Michael just infatuated, or is he unbalanced? With a whole troupe, there are plenty of suspects. Wyman has a radio and TV background, and Williams is an actress, so the backstage details have authority, and Lee's story is effectively told."

“The 1980s New York setting is well-described, with countless details that evoke the era's apathy-toward-the-homeless philosophy. Equally interesting are the passages detailing the world of theater, a world that is colorful, gaudy, outrageous, and enticing, yet also somehow menacing for its illusions. One can never be truly sure whether something is artifice or reality, an acting moment or an emotional moment, and this uncertainty keeps the reader as well as the book's characters off-guard and interested. In this regard, Lee is the perfect heroine. She is imperfect enough to be interesting yet accomplished and intelligent enough to be believable as a crime solver and theater administrator. She works, along with the entire theater milieu, to create a mystery that is involving and surprising.”