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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings his son to the playground. Sarah is amazed to find these...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Family members struggle with their grief after eleven-year-old Lizbett Warne is sexually slain. On their journey back to normalcy, they adopt an abused Great Dane. Meanwhile, Melvyn Searle, who is hiding in plain sight, stalks the Warne's younger daughter, Darcy.
3) Pen 33
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Serial killer and child molester Bernt Lund escapes from prison custody, leading Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens to the most disturbing case of his career.
Author
Series
Lena Jones mystery volume 9
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When the man who raped Scottsdale PI Lena Jones when she was a nine-year-old foster child is released from prison, Lena is waiting for him in the parking lot--with a big knife. "Papa" Brian Wycoff survives their meeting, but the next day, his wife, who knew about his crimes but did nothing to stop him--in fact enabled him--is found dead in their Apache Junction home, shot through both eyes. Terrified he will be next, Wycoff, violating his parole,...
5) Acid Row
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Visiting a crime-riddled housing project, unaware that a known pedophile lives there, Sophie Morrison learns that a child has gone missing and that the project's vigilantes are out in force, trapping Sophie with a man who is intent on hurting her.
Author
Series
Dead detective volume 1
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After being murdered as a child and brought back to life by two cops, Harry Doyle grew up to become a homicide detective who has the uncanny ability to hear the whispers of murder victims, and he must put his power to use to solve the murder of a beautiful woman who was also a notorious child molester.
7) The comeback
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her year of self-imposed exile. She knows the new private...
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mystery volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Somers, running ... Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come to her aid, she thinks she's safe. But this is Norbold, where things aren't always as they seem. Detective Chief Inspector Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill rather than be taken. Constable Hazel Best thinks she's helping both the Somers family and her friend Ash, but her tendency to follow her...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him.
For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, Larry Nassar honed his manipulations on generations of aspiring gymnasts. Kids from the neighborhood. Girls with hopes of a college scholarship. Athletes and parents with a dream. Pesta describes Nassar's increasingly bold predations through the years,...
13) Daddy Love
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Part-time preacher Chester Cash calls himself Daddy Love. He has abducted, tortured, and raped several young boys into being his lover and his 'son'. Kidnapping Robbie from his mother at a mall, he confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son. Dinah, the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
Author
Series
In death volume 33
Language
English
Description
Homicide cop Eve Dallas' newest case takes her back to the city she's named for and plunges her into the nightmares of her childhood. Isaac McQueen, whom Eve had taken down many years ago, had escaped from Rikers with two things in mind. One was to continue abducting young women. The other was to get revenge on Eve--the woman who had stopped him years earlier.
15) Little children
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an over-structured mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into town and two of the parents have an affair.
16) Credible threat
Author
Series
Ali Reynolds volume 15
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes -- the moment she hears him speak of his crimes -- she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her...
18) Another life
Author
Series
Burke volume 18
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The only person Burke has ever called “father,” a legendary crime planner known throughout the underground as the Prof, is in a coma, barely clinging to life in the off-the-books hospital where the crew stashed him after their last job went off the rails. So when Pryce, a shadow-man with deep (and very dark) government connections, offers a package – Presidential-grade medical services for the Prof and a wiped-clean slate for everyone who participates...
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