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NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME Author: Katia Lief Published: October 26, 2010 by Avon/HarperCollins Category: Suspense Main Character: Karin Schaeffer, Mac MacLeary, Billy Staples Three years after a harrowing escape from the serial killer who took the lives of her husband and daughter, Karin Schaeffer is married to her former partner Mac MacLeary and they are living in Brooklyn with their young son Ben. Karin is finally pursuing a college degree, studying forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. Mac, now a retired detective, has just been made a senior executive at Quest Security and an announcement has appeared in the newspaper...triggering a series of events that catapults their lives into perilous territory. Click for more info. |
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YOU ARE NEXT Author: Katia Lief Published: September 28, 2010 by Avon/HarperCollins Category: Suspense Main Character: Karin Schaeffer, Mac MacLeary, Billy Staples Detective Karin Schaeffer was a happily married mother in New Jersey when her life was shattered by a serial killer who murdered her husband and daughter. Martin Price is known to the police as JPP for Just Plain Psycho because of the brutality of his attacks. To the press and the public he is known as The Domino Killer because he systematically murders whole families one by one, after leaving a trail of dominoes as clues. Click for more info. |
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HERE SHE LIES Author: Katia Lief writing as Kate Pepper Published: May 1, 2007 by Blue Table Books Category: Suspense Main Character: Annie Milliken, Julie Milliken When she discovers e-mail evidence of her husband's infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, she leaves their home in Kentucky and takes their baby daughter to western Massachusetts and the safe harbor of her identical twin sister, Julie. But Annie's sense of security evaporates when she arrives into a crime scene: a woman who resembles Annie and Julie has been murdered right in front of Julie's house. Annie and Julie cooperate with the murder investigation. |
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ONE COLD NIGHT Author: Katia Lief writing as Kate Pepper Published: May 1, 2006 by Blue Table Books Category: Suspense Main Character: Dave Strauss, Susan Bailey, Lisa Bailey Detective Dave Strauss is happily married to Susan Bailey, owner of a chocolate shop nestled in the gentrifying industrial neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn. Susan's younger sister, fourteen-year-old Lisa, lives with them. When Susan is forced to reveal a long-held family secret, Lisa bolts and doesn't return. Assuming she has run away, Dave and Susan search the shadowy cobbled streets beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, but Lisa is nowhere to be found. Soon clues gather to suggest the stark probability that Dave's old nemesis has returned to torment him. |
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SEVEN MINUTES TO NOON Author: Katia Lief writing as Kate Pepper Published: May 1, 2005 by NAL/Penguin Category: Suspense Main Character: Alice Halpern On a day that seems perfectly ordinary, Alice Halpern waits for her best friend Lauren at Carroll Park, the Brooklyn playground where they meet with their children every afternoon. But when Lauren doesn't arrive, and then fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day transforms into a nightmare. The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant. Close friends rally around her distraught husband and little boy, offering comfort and support. But hope vanishes when she is finally found...without her unborn child. Click for more info. |
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FIVE DAYS IN SUMMER Author: Katia Lief writing as Kate Pepper Published: July 1, 2004 by NAL/Penguin Category: Suspense Main Character: Emily Parker, Will Parker, John Geary At the end of a family vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker makes a last minute trip to the grocery store...and doesn't return. As the hours pass, her mother and husband, Will, grow increasingly worried. By the next morning, panic has set in. Missing signs are posted around the community. Will drives to the local police station to report Emily missing. Click for more info. |
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