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Couch

a novel
2008

After dark

1996
Lawyer Tracy Cavanaugh is investigating two murder cases when she stumbles across information that uncovers a bizarre plot, and she no longer knows who she can trust.

A hundred little Hitlers

the death of a Black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the American neo-Nazi movement in America
2003
Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of Kenneth Mieske, a white racists accussed of killing an Ethiopian, and discusses how the incident uncovered the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.

Heartsick

2008
Portland detective Archie Sheridan, kidnapped and tortured for ten days by Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer he had hunted for ten years, is having trouble coming to grips with his life since Lowell released him and turned herself in, but he knows he must pull himself together when another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the street.

A Mien family

1996
Describes the experiences of one Mien family that fled their home in Laos and moved to a new life in Portland, Oregon.

Girl

2007
Andrea Marr is a typical Portland teenager who goes to the malls until she joins a rock band and becomes involved in the underground rock scene, but she soon learns she has to choose between conformity or rebellion.

Dead by sunset

perfect husband, perfect killer?
1996
Tells the story of the bludgeoning death of attorney Cheryl Keeton in 1986 and the subsequent arrest and trial of her husband, Brad Cunningham, who was convicted of murder.

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