Chance is ambitious and provocative, complex in construction and in its prose -- Rowena * Murder, Mayhem and More * There hasn't been fiction this good about a San Francisco medical professional gone off the rails over a woman since Frank Norris' deluded dentist in the 1899 novel McTeague -- Alan Cheuse * San Francisco Chronicle * Chance takes place in the twilit world of noir, where people and things are never what they seem...For all the mayhem - its ending is delicately funny * New York Times Book Review * Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler? Like Chandler, Nunn's great subject is what lies beneath the surface, the desolation that infuses us at every turn. . . The power of this disturbing and provocative novel is that it leaves us unmoored among the signposts of a morally ambiguous universe in which, even after we have finished reading, it is uncertain who has been feeding whom * Los Angeles Times * Brilliant and cerebral psychological thriller * Publisher's Weekly *