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Detective Merci Rayborn's abilities and judgment are drawn into question when she insists on pursuing the case of Archie Wildcraft, a promising young cop who was apparently the perpetrator of a murder/suicide attempt that left his wife dead and him hospitalized with a bullet in his head.

Matson offers field-tested commentaries on new approaches to rural living.

Susie, her daughter, Clara, and her granddaughter, Susan, are united by love, a fierce devotion to each other, and a growing desire for freedom.

Susie, her daughter, Clara, and her granddaughter, Susan, all house slaves born and raised at the Virginia plantation of President James Madison, enter a period of constant peril when the plantation falls to a series of owners, one of whom sells Susan to a Richmond businessman.

Reviews the case of David Brown, a computer entrepreneur whose role in the murder of his young wife came to light years after her death in 1985--a crime for which Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter originally took the blame.