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Emerging a lone survivor of a serial killer's massacre a decade earlier, a former college student struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.

In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They're the prey. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so enthralled by female murderers. They do the things that women aren't supposed to do and live the lives that women aren't supposed to want: lives...

"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford,...

Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different. As Billy May explains, "We was sheltered in them hills. We didn't know much of nothin' about life outside of them mountains. I did not know the word lesbian; to us, gay meant havin' fun and queer meant somethin' strange."

"Paul Martin was a devoted family man who had all the trappings of an enviable life: a beautiful wife and daughter, a well-appointed home on Long Island's north shore, a job at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He was also a devoted son and brother, shielding the women in his orbit from the everyday horrors of the world. But what happens when Paul's fragile ego is rocked? After committing an unspeakable act--that he can never undo--Paul grapples...

Twenty years after a brutal attack on her sister Emma, Jamie, when a new nightmare emerges, realizes that Emma?s fractured memories may contain the answers to the past killings and the current attacks.

"Haven't we all wanted to pretend everything's perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she'll always let her husband, Leon--a bestselling thriller author--fight their battles. She'd prefer to focus on the good things in life: precious days with her two young children, a steady and loving marriage, their mischievously playful cat Bonita, and her fulfilling job as a creative writing teacher. In Jane's eyes,...

Based on the Pulitzer-finalist series for the Washington Post on the effects of gun violence on children, an urgent call to action investigates the effectiveness of gun safety reforms and the ongoing realities of traumatized survivors of community and campus shootings.

Callie Hoffman is engaged to Levi Housler, the new pastor of the Kingdom, Kansas, Mennonite Church. She spends her days working with Lizzie Housler, her friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law, at the town café. But when a body is discovered on the road outside Kingdom, and the new sheriff begins questioning Kingdom residents, Callie is desperate to find answers for herself -- especially when her own fiancé seems to know more than he's telling.

When a mentally disabled boy is wrongly targeted with suspicion in the wake of a child's disappearance, Detective Inspector Embla uncovers suspicious links to an unsolved missing-persons case from her childhood.