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Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment- a violent crime of passion- is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there...
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Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell, now a cautious risk-management consultant, was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. He is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously when a friend from his time in Lubanda is found murdered in a New York alley. Signs suggest that this most recent tragedy is rooted in the far more distant one of Martine Aubert, the only woman Ray ever...
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George Gates used to be a travel writer who had specialized in places where people had disappeared--until his own young son had been murdered. When he gets drawn into the unsolved case of Katherine Carr, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own as well.
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Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He's a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she's a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil. Then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed from a deadly overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning her. As the truth of their turbulent marriage comes to light, Samuel must...
6) Peril
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Sara Labriola, a married woman haunted by a terrible secret, decides to disappear and establish a new life, despite the six dangerous men who are on her trail, unaware that Sara in turn is drawing them down a path of revenge.
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A withdrawn architect revisits the darkest moment of his childhood Steve Farris was nine years old in 1959, the youngest child in a family that was about to be snuffed out. Around four o'clock on an ordinary November afternoon, Steve's father loaded his shotgun. With calm precision he killed his teenaged son and daughter, and then turned the weapon on his wife. For two hours he waited for his youngest son to come home from school. When Steve did not...
10) Red leaves
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Eric Moore's perfect life begins to crumble around him when his teenage son Keith is implicated in the disappearance of a neighbor's eight-year-old daughter, and as Eric struggles to clear Keith's name, he begins to wonder if his son is really as innocent as he claims.
12) Breakheart Hill
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Only one person truly knows what happened to Kelli Troy on that fateful night almost thirty years ago, and he is determined not to break his silence.
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A photographer struggles to understand a stranger's suicide There's nothing special about the woman's death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman's attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the...
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They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son' because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in woods. Where Eddie's family name has brought only infamy, Jack's has bestowed respect. To exorcise the burden, his teacher Jack encourages Eddie to confront past and discover truth about his father.
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