ex-convicts

After being released from jail, Jo Shelby Ferguson finds a cache of age-worn letters written by his great-great-great-grandmother, and as he sets out to learn more about his ancestors, he uncovers some important clues about his own identity.

Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

With lots of dangerous people after him and his restaurant in flames, Charles "Shake" Bouchon, who thought he had left his life of crime behind for good, agrees to follow a mysterious man to Mexico and help pull off a big score.

Ex-convict Socrates Fortlow is finally getting his life in order when he becomes the chief suspect in a series of crimes, and now he must find a way to prove his innocence and preserve the life he has made for himself.

Story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Ellie Cavanaugh's long-held beliefs are picked apart when she reinvestigates her sister's murder in an attempt to prove the guilt of the man, recently released, who spent twenty-two years in prison for the killing.

Installation artist John Sullivan, having spent six years in prison for his role in the death of a stalker in Ireland, returns to his family to find his oldest daughter Regis, who was present when her father's victim went over a cliff, plagued by nightmares, his wife full of anger, and his younger daughters dealing with problems of their own.