Kirsten Potter

Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.

1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.

Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and child advocate Anne Leone search for clues about the life of Marissa Fordham, a woman who was found murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting on her bloody body.

Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."

"Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site and a witness to the death, a young girl nicknamed Ghost, may be able to help. Ghost says the woman was pushed by someone she can only identify as the Shadow Man and soon Theresa finds herself in a race against time to protect Ghost from an unknown killer before he is able to find the little girl and silence her for...

As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The latest is an unidentified female in her early teens, discovered in a local cemetery. More shocking than the girl's injuries--for Maggie at least--is the fact that no one has reported her missing. She and the detectives assigned to the case (including her cop ex-husband) are determined to follow every lead, run down every scrap of evidence....

The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. In White Trash, Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions...

A debut entry in a suspenseful series begins the adventures of Jake Tiptree's onetime helper, Lizzie Snow, who takes over as Eastport's police chief only to find herself stalked by a deadly adversary from her past. By the best-selling author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series.

Emily Detweiler's family abruptly moved to Colorado after tragedy struck in Ohio. But Emily can't get far enough to escape what happened there. David Stoltzfus is not happy when his family relocates from Pennsylvania to Colorado. Nevermind that they haven't told him why. David struggles not only with this unwelcome move, but also with the fear that a health condition could keep him from living his life in full. Emily and David each come to terms with...

It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigre ; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand...