Author: Katharine Clark
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
ISBN: 1614171548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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Children’s book illustrator Rachel Stark is living every parent’s nightmare: her nine-year-old son, David, has been snatched off the street in broad daylight with no apparent motive, his red bicycle left lying on the side of the road. Now, already bearing the strain of a troubled marriage, Rachel must channel every ounce of strength into a desperate search for David. Complicating everything are Rachel’s recently divorced sister, a bombshell who conceals explosive secrets; an icy, by-the-book detective, infuriating in his professional detachment; Rachel’s own lawyer husband, Stephen, who believes he can manage the situation through bullying and logic; and a deceptive “saint” from the Missing Child Foundation, who harbors his own hidden agenda. Through it all there is David, crying out to be found. But are Rachel’s visions of her terrified child something real or the cruel trick of a mother’s heart consumed with love and fear? “Beautifully written and heartwrenching... Searingly memorable.” New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen “This first-rate thriller... moves convincingly to its cliffhanger conclusion.” Library Journal
Author: Lois Ruby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481425536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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When Dana uncovers a skeleton hidden in the wall of her home, she also uncovers a dark secret that stretches back years. When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family’s old house, she’s unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room—containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up? With the help of a diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana’s world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds. But as pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, one haunting question remains—why did Lizbet Charles die?
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553352337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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A fictional re-creation of one of the most engimatic cases in American history follows one man's search through a maze of deception, betrayal and danger.
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671017489
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Drawn from fascinating historical records--including trial transcripts from the century's first insanity defense--this is the gripping account of the gruesome kidnap and murder of a 12-year-old girl in 1927. Following a nationwide manhunt, no one was prepared for the awful truth that a sadistic monster dwelled within an unlikely suspect.
Author: V. M. Burns
Publisher: Camel Press
ISBN: 9781603816939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Marti Alexander, dog trainer/breeder and Search and Rescue volunteer gets a text message asking her to go to a spot on the St. Joseph River to track a missing person. Marti calls Detective RJ Franklin who arrives on the scene and starts the task of investigating. RJ has worked with Marti before on other search and rescue cases. RJ doesn't have to investigate long to realize Marti has motive, opportunity and means for killing her ex-husband. Jake Alexander. Despite the mountain of evidence, Marti denies killing Jake, but the evidence is overwhelming. With the help of his loved ones, RJ is able to catch a killer and his circle of family and friends is strong.
Author: C.D. Wright
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320967
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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"Wright proves herself to be one of the most complex and fascinating poets writing today." -Library Journal
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Amazon Encore
ISBN: 9781612180908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh's inner circle, Heller investigates crooks, cranks, socialites, and psychics in a frustrating, fruitless attempt to solve the case. Max Allan Collins makes the crime that captivated a nation the focal point of yet another fascinating and thoroughly spellbinding foray into his world of historical crime fiction. Four years later, in 1936, Heller -- now a private detective, and considered an expert and insider on the Lindbergh case -- is hired by the governor of New Jersey in an eleventh-hour quest to determine the guilt or innocence of Bruno Hauptmann, who sits on death row convicted of the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh child. "A novel of the Lindbergh kidnapping by the master of 'true-crime' fiction... Don't miss it "--Publishers Weekly
Author: Heather Brittain Bergstrom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101612754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A novel of love in all its forms: for the land, for family, and the once-in-a-lifetime kind that catches two people when they least expect it Emmy is a shy, sheltered sixteen-year-old when her mom, Kate, sends her to eastern Washington to an aunt and uncle she never knew she had. Fifteen years earlier, Kate had abandoned her sister, Beth, when she fled her painful past and their fundamentalist church. And now, Beth believes Emmy’s participation in a faith healing is her last hope for having a child. Emmy goes reluctantly, but before long she knows she has come home. She feels tied to the rugged landscape of coulees and scablands. And she meets Reuben, the Native American boy next door. In a part of the country where the age-old tensions of cowboys versus Indians still play out, theirs is the kind of magical, fraught love that can only survive with the passion and resilience of youth. Their story is mirrored by the generation before them, who fears that their mistakes are doomed to repeat themselves in Emmy and Reuben. With Louise Erdrich’s sense of place and a love story in the tradition of Water for Elephants, this is an atmospheric family drama in which the question of home is a spiritual one, in which getting over the past is the only hope for the future.
Author: Lucy Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361117
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.
Author: Lisa Harris
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373445423
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Who would want her life? Danielle Corbett doesn't understand why someone would want to steal her identity. A single mother running a small business—nothing special, right? But after discovering a dead body on the Oregon coastline, she's attacked by a dangerous hacker who will stop at nothing to frame her. Only her former fiancé, Jason Ryan, is willing to help. Years ago she broke his heart, but he can't walk away from a woman in need. He'll do anything to protect her from their unseen adversary. But is there enough time to work together and untangle this twisted web of fraud and deception?
