murder victims' families

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, waiting for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

Reverend Stephen Drew is shattered when Alice Hayward is murdered by her husband just hours after being baptized and finds his faith in God slipping away, until he meets Heather Laurent, whose work studying angels helps Drew renew his spirituality in the face of a police investigation that suggests he may have been connected to Alice's death.

Ellie Cavanaugh's long-held beliefs are tested 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 crime.

Presents the text of "Hamlet," in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost, and includes introductory and textual notes, character lists and studies, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare.