murder victims' families

After her father is brutally murdered, Calley Dakin and her mother find themselves exiled to Pensacola Beach, where Calley learns she has psychic abilities and struggles to protect herself from those who wish to exploit her gift.

This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.

Jackson Workman "Work" Pickens, a criminal defense attorney in a class-conscious southern town, has come to hate his profession and his life, with the burdens of a bad marriage, psychologically damaged sister, and missing father weighing him down, but he is shocked out of his inertia when his father's corpse is found and Work becomes the prime suspect in the murder.

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.

College dropout Jeremy Stroeb is forced to accept responsibility for his teenage sister, Elise, after his parents--Rachel, an accountant, and Daniel, a controversial professor--are murdered, and hoping to learn the reason for the killings, Jeremy takes a job at his mother's firm and begins to realize his parents were not the people he thought they were.

A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.

After the tragic death of his son, Dr. Neil Downs flees to India, where he takes a job as the resident physician at the American Embassy and tries to work through his grief.

A daughter recalls her father, his murder when she was ten, and her experience coming to terms with her past. She tells how she searched for answers when the murder was never solved.

A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.