John Wayne Glover-also known as the "Granny Killer"-was a serial killer who was active in Sydney, Australia, between 1989 and 1990 who murdered at least six-and as many as 13-elderly females after hitting them with a claw hammer and then ritually strangling them with their own pantyhose. It was widely believed that Glover's victims represented his mother and mother-in-law who he blamed for his misdeeds. He was ultimately sentenced to six life sentences...

Of the many, many criminals who end up on death row, Michael Ross's situation is one of the most complex. Some reluctant guests of the row are vicious and wicked, men and women filled with pure evil. Others are innocent. These are victims of a system which is far from fool proof and frequently driven by political expediency as much as a search for justice. And some people are killers despite themselves, criminals in need of help as well as punishment....

Young children are being lured into sex-for-hire "stables," under the guise of offering money in exchange for modeling jobs. One victim has already committed suicide, and a thirteen-year-old girl's life has been forever changed. Liz Trent, the young Assistant District Attorney, is obsessed with finding the traffickers and making them pay for destroying the lives of these young girls and boys. She goes undercover against a ring of human traffickers....

Most of us have seen a movie or some tv series on the trials and tribulations of college bullies and the popular football player and cute teenager cheerleader. Most of us have probably already formed some kind of perception on what type of people they are – rude; full of themselves; picking on others and generally a downright plague to those around them. But this was no movie or tv series and, Emma Walker was not any preconceived version of a...

Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.

"Dandy is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Dandy's services are needed when the heiress to one of the stores goes missing. As Dandy starts to unravel the long-hidden family secrets, she begins to discover disturbing connections and it's not long before danger abounds."--Dust jacket.

Nick Heller comes to the aid of family friend Marshall Marcus, whose daughter Alexandra, has been kidnapped and held captive in an underground crypt; but as Nick digs deeper into Marshall's life, he finds that his criminal activities have left behind scores of enemies that reach to the highest levels of government.

"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...

"As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"-- When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry...

When a freak accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a ghost, with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk, and it has recently been fired. It's up to Stride to solve the mystery, but there are those who would stop at nothing to stop him.