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Crusher

2012
After he discovers his father murdered, Finn, now the prime suspect, scours the London underworld, exposing secrets and facing danger, to determine the true killer.

Feral nights

2013
While trying to find his sister, who is a suspect in a murder investigation, werecat Yoshi encounters werepossum Clyde and human Aimee, and all three of them get caught in an underground kidnapping ring where they must fight to stay alive.

Amelia Anne is dead and gone

2012
Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eighteen-year-old Becca's determination to leave home as soon as possible.

You will see fire

a search for justice in Kenya
2012
John Kaiser, an obscure American missionary, denounced the regime of Daniel arap Moi in Kenya, and became an improbable icon to a country strugging to escape that regime. Few knew that Kaiser was also a manic depressive. When Kaiser was found dead, the FBI ruled it a suicide. Kenyans were convinced he had been murdered. In a post-Moi Kenya, what happened to Kaiser was finally revealed.

Death of a schoolgirl

2012
Picking up where Charlotte Bronte left off, this book by author Joanna Slan continues the story of Jane Eyre. Jane marries Rochester, has an infant son, and settles into a pattern of comfortable domestic life with her family. Then a letter arrives from Adele, Rochester's young ward, who is currently at boarding school, telling them her schoolmate has died under suspicious circumstances.

Crush, candy, corpse

2012
While volunteering at Paradise Manor, tragedy strikes, leaving Sunny to make the decision about whether or not to honor a promise that Cole made to his grandmother about her life and her death.

Force of nature

2012
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.

The Girl next door

2012
Reading his own paper's obituaries, Carter Ross comes across a woman named Nancy Marino who died in a hit and run car accident while she was actually on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes but instead, one of Nancy's sisters convinces him the accident might not have been an accident at all.

Monstrous beauty

2012
In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

Beautiful disaster

a Privilege novel
2009
Arrested for murdering Thomas Pearson and sent to the Trumball Correctional Facility, a facility for the criminally insane, formerly super popular Ariana Osgood spends her days plotting her escape and the revenge she will take on her old classmates at Easton Academy.

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