Author : Dena Kleiman
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1988-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9785552490981
To stop her father's sexual abuse--abuse that had started before she was 12--Cheryl Pierson and her boyfriend paidl Cheryl's father, James Pierson. New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman pieces together this psychological jigsaw of a crime within a crime and explores this undercurrent of violence that permeates the American family.
Author : Rebecca Zanetti
Publisher : Forever
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455594261
DON'T LOOK BACK Under siege. That's how Ryker Jones feels. The Lost Bastards Investigative Agency he opened up with his blood brothers has lost a client in a brutal way. The past he can't outrun is resurfacing, threatening to drag him down in the undertow. And the beautiful woman he's been trying to keep at arm's length is in danger...and he'll destroy anything and anyone to keep her safe. Paralegal Zara Remington is in over her head. She's making risky moves at work by day and indulging in an affair with a darkly dangerous PI by night. There's a lot Ryker isn't telling her and the more she uncovers, the less she wants to know. But when all hell breaks loose, Ryker may be the only one to save her. If his past doesn't catch up to them first... Full of twists and turns you won't see coming, Deadly Silence is New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti at her suspenseful best. Fans of New York Times bestsellers Maya Banks, Lisa Gardner, and Lisa Jackson will love Deadly Silence. RT Book Reviews Readers' Choice Award Winner!
Author : S.A. Barnes
Publisher : Tor Nightfire
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250778557
A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction! Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate. "Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.” Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Adele Sweetman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1475967276
A Deadly Silence tells a true story set in Annandale, an exclusive Pasadena neighborhood overlooking the Rose Bowl an unlikely backdrop for a triple homicide. David Adkins and his girlfriend, Kathy Macaulay, had been dating for four years, but it hadn't been good lately. He could feel her pulling away, and he wasn't going to allow that to happen. Kathy and two of her friends, Heather Goodwin and Danae Palermo, were having a sleepover when David and two of his friends visited them. Things turned ugly quickly, and David Adkins and one of his friends blasted them with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun, brutally killing all three of the girls. A telephone call prompted Heather's parents, Darrell and Mimi Goodwin, to get there quickly. When the police arrived, Darrel entered the blood-spattered room and identified the bodies of his daughter and her friends. Detectives Mike Korpal and Tim Sweetman husband of author Adele Sweetman were assigned to the intense investigation. A Deadly Silence reveals their investigative reasoning and privileged findings. At a highly publicized double-jury trial, jurors heard gripping taped confessions. No motive was given. Convicted, Hebrock told his story to Adele Sweetman from his cell in Pelican Bay Prison. This gripping, true-crime account also examines victims' rights and parents' torment when personal tragedy is converted into melodrama as front page news.
Author : Adele Sweetman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1475967292
A Deadly Silence tells a true story set in Annandale, an exclusive Pasadena neighborhood overlooking the Rose Bowlan unlikely backdrop for a triple homicide. David Adkins and his girlfriend, Kathy Macaulay, had been dating for four years, but it hadnt been good lately. He could feel her pulling away, and he wasnt going to allow that to happen. Kathy and two of her friends, Heather Goodwin and Danae Palermo, were having a sleepover when David and two of his friends visited them. Things turned ugly quickly, and David Adkins and one of his friends blasted them with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun, brutally killing all three of the girls. A telephone call prompted Heathers parents, Darrell and Mimi Goodwin, to get there quickly. When the police arrived, Darrel entered the blood-spattered room and identified the bodies of his daughter and her friends. Detectives Mike Korpal and Tim Sweetmanhusband of author Adele Sweetmanwere assigned to the intense investigation. A Deadly Silence reveals their investigative reasoning and privileged findings. At a highly publicized double-jury trial, jurors heard gripping taped confessions. No motive was given. Convicted, Hebrock told his story to Adele Sweetman from his cell in Pelican Bay Prison. This gripping, true-crime account also examines victims rights and parents torment when personal tragedy is converted into melodrama as front page news.
Author : Hisham Mohammed
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1662906978
The Deadly Silence is a book describing life in Iraq in the time of peace and following the war of 2003. Things changed drastically after the war since many people’s lives were damaged because of the destruction caused by the war. One family living in Iraq found their lives changed on one fateful day. The youngest son, Hisham was paralyzed from the neck down from a bomb that landed outside their house. Hisham describes the days he spent in the intensive care unit and the struggles his family faced during that time. The parents searched desperately for a better place and life for their four sons. Through the sleepless nights and days of despair, the family preservers eventually leaving the country and struggle as refugees. The family ended up leaving the country that they love because of the war and struggled as they moved from one country to another. The family left the country with sadness and despair with only an inkling of hope. Now they made many accomplishments while seeking to spread hope and peace whenever they can, which is the main goal of the book.
Author : Andrea Peacock
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781555663193
A sequel to Civil Action-W.R. Grace company, owners of a vermiculite mine in that small Montana town, never told the miners what it knew: there was asbestos in the vermiculite, and the asbestos was destroying the miners lungs.
Author : Robin Caroll
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164352593X
Political games can be deadly… Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator’s life—a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and she must leave. Then she later sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed. But when she comes forward, her life, as well as her son’s life, may now be in the crosshairs of the assassin.
Author : Randy Wayne White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399155406
When his U.S. senator girlfriend is kidnapped during an assassination attempt outside the Explorers Club in New York City, Doc Ford sets out on a rescue mission in the Florida Keys with his friend Tomlinson; an effort that is further complicated by the kidnapper's claims that the senator has been buried alive.
Author : Kimberly Derting
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062082248
Dead Silence is the gripping fourth novel in the Body Finder series. With romance, suspense, and unexpected twists, Dead Silence will keep readers guessing until the very last page. All her life Violet has grappled with her ability to sense the echoes of those who have been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Now that she has an imprint of her own, Violet's "gift" is intolerable. Torn between her desire to lead a normal life and the pressure from the Center to continue her work tracking down killers, Violet's world starts to unravel . . . and some of her most carefully guarded secrets are exposed. Then she discovers a gruesome murder scene unlike anything she's ever encountered, and she can't rest until she's silenced the echoes for good. As Violet sets out to find a vicious murderer and his band of devoted followers, she realizes that protecting those closest to her is far more difficult than protecting herself.
