Cook, Thomas H

In 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, homocide detective Ben Williams investigates a series of murders beginning with a young black girl.

For years Paul Graves has tried to escape his past and forget about his sister's murder, but when he is called to Riverwood to write a story about a young girl who was killed more than forty years earlier, he is forced to face the demons that have always tormented him.

"This epic novel, based on the gripping ten-part Sci Fi Channel miniseries from DreamWorks Television, spans sixty years of American history..."--p. [4] of cover.

In 1954, Jack Branch returns to his hometown to teach a class on historical evils at the local high school and becomes a mentor to one student, the son of a notorious local killer, but as he encourages the boy to investigate his father's life, Jack is shocked to find the killer's past linked to his own family.

David Sears has always lived in the shadow of his brilliant younger sister, Diana, but when the death of Diana's son sends her into a downward spiral of depression and denial, David tries to help her overcome her grief and come to terms with reality.

Elizabeth Channing comes to teach art at the Chatham School in 1926, bringing with her a world of experiences far different from those of the people in the small Cape Cod village, and setting off a scandal that haunts student Henry Griswald into his old age.

The lives of three police officers begin to unravel as they come down to the last twelve hours in the interrogation of a murder suspect and are still unable to come up with any evidence that Albert Jay Smalls strangled an eight-year-old girl in the park.

Elizabeth Channing comes to teach art at the Chatham School in 1926, bringing with her a world of experiences far different from those of the people in the small Cape Cod village, and setting off a scandal that haunts student Henry Griswald into his old age.

Eric Moore's perfect life begins to crumble around him when his teenage son Keith is implicated in the disappearance of a neighbor's eight-year-old daughter, and as Eric struggles to clear Keith's name, he begins to wonder if his son is really as innocent as he claims.