A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse.
Anneke Haagen, only days from her wedding, still finds time to work on her computer games and chat on-line with a group of computer gamers, and when one of the members of her mailing list is murdered, Anneke decides that the perfect way to solve the crime is to turn it into a murder game that all the prime suspects can play.
Profiles the lives and atrocities of seven serial killers: H. H. Holmes, Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Andrei Chikatilo, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Zodiac killer.
Ten people are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, suprisingly, fails to appear--ten people who have something to hide and something to fear.
