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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Description
Spinster Miss Dido Kent travels to be by her niece Catherine's side after her fiancé breaks off their engagement and disappears, and decides to investigate the breakup while also looking into the murder of a woman whose body was found on the missing man's family estate.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Holiday hero: "Emma Fairchild never expected to find trouble in sleepy Sagebrush, Texas. But when she's attacked and left for dead in her own diner, her childhood friend turned K-9 cop Lucas Harwood offers a chance at justice--and love"--Publisher.
Rescuing Christmas: "She escaped a kidnapper, but now a killer has set his sights on K-9 dog trainer Lily Anderson. When fellow officer Jarrod Evans appoints himself her bodyguard, Lily knows more than...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
"A true, first-person account of the victim who survived the crimes committed by the rapist and killer made famous in the movie Dead Man Walking. Debbie Morris takes readers beyond the story of those crimes and into the journey of her faith as she wrestles with the question all of us face at some point in life: Is there any crime, any hurt, any person beyond the power of forgiveness?" (back cover)
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Gilly Soloman has been reduced to a mothering machine, taking care of everyone and everything except herself. But the machine has broken down. Burnt out by the endless days of crying children and menial tasks, and exhausted from always putting herself last, Gilly doesn't immediately consider the consequences when she's carjacked. With a knife to her throat, her first thought is that she'll finally get some rest. Someone can save her for a change....
Author
Series
Ones who got away volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Most days, Rebecca Lindt feels like an imposter...The world admires her as a survivor. But that impression would crumble if people knew her secret. She didn't deserve to be the one who got away. But nothing can change the past, so she's thrown herself into her work. She can't dwell if she never slows down. Wes Garrett is trying to get back on his feet after losing his dream restaurant, his money, and half his damn mind in a vicious divorce. But when...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"Read an absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell— a mother and wife who did the unthinkable … and the unforgiveable. At 5:02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriffs office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickells mobile home, to find Stella standing frozen at the...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003, 2004
Description
God works miracles in the lives of two people even in the midst of tragedy when driven businessman Eric Michaels loses his memory after being injured in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and is mistaken for fireman Jamie Bryan, a joyful Christian husband and father who was killed in the collapse of the towers.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Details the experiences of the Patz family after the abduction of six-year-old Etan in 1979, who went missing between his home and the bus stop in the family's downtown Manhattan neighborhood, and describes their search, the police efforts and investigation, and other topics.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' revictimization by the justice system In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, awoke from sound sleep to a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise and warned Aaron not to call the police or she would be killed. Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Collects two stories about law and love, including "The Law is a Lady," where filmmaker Phillip, after being pulled over by sheriff Victoria in Friendly, New Mexico, decides that the town is the perfect locale for his new film, and Victoria is the perfect woman for him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
A young couple find their daughter in her pram covered in blood and Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to interview the parents, and although the child is unharmed, Sejer decides to investigate but when more cruel practical jokes begin to emerge, Sejer must find the pankster before the jokes escaclate.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the 1990s, legendary writer Paul Dini had a flourishing career writing the hugely popular Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures. Walking home one evening, he was jumped and viciously beaten within an inch of his life. His recovery process was arduous, hampered by the imagined antics of the villains he was writing for television including the Joker, Harley Quinn and the Penguin. But despite how bleak his circumstances were, or perhaps...
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