FICTION

SEE JANE RUN by Joy Fielding (William Morrow: $19.95; 364 pp.). Jane is in trouble, and she can’t remember a thing. She finds herself walking along a Boston street, $10,000 in cash in her coat pocket, blood covering the front of her dress. She has no purse, no identification, and she can’t remember any details about her personal life. She buys some new clothes, stashes most of the money in a bus-station locker, and checks into a small hotel to think things over. Eventually, she turns herself in to the police, without mentioning the money or the blood. A kindly doctor diagnoses her condition as “hysterical amnesia.” But what traumatic event caused it? And why doesn’t she quite trust the perfect gentleman who turns out to be her husband? His explanations of everything make sense. But her fears intensify and she seems to get crazier by the day.