<div><B>Edgar Award winner: Based on true events, a chilling tale of murder and injustice in the Jim Crow South</B><BR /> As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow the two bicycling white girls. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Maybe it&rsquo;s the way Cindy Lou speaks to him, or how Sue Ellen sits on her bike. Whatever the reason, he follows the girls into the woods. It&rsquo;s the worst mistake he ever makes. When he comes into the clearing, both girls are dead and young Linus is the natural suspect. Forty years later, a nephew of Linus&rsquo;s returns to South Carolina, curious about this dark moment in his family&rsquo;s past. To find the fourth person who visited the clearing that day means reopening a sinister chapter of the small town&rsquo;s history, which certain evil men had thought closed forever.<BR /><I>Carolina Skeletons</I> is based on the 1944 case of George Stinney Jr., who, at the age of fourteen, became the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. After a hastily scheduled hearing only a few hours long, the jury quickly charged him with a double murder. He was put to death three months later.<BR /> A haunting journey into America&rsquo;s shameful past, <I>Carolina Skeletons</I> deftly explores how history&rsquo;s skeletons rarely stay hidden forever.</div>

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Carolina Skeletons

<div><B>A newspaper editor in upstate New York is drawn into a deadly web of hatred and suspicion when he joins the hunt for a kidnapped little boy in this gritty and evocative thriller from an Edgar Award&ndash;winning author</B><BR /><BR />Long Creek in New York&rsquo;s Hill County is an angry place&mdash;depressed, suspicious, and unforgiving. In the aftermath of a late-November snowstorm, one of the town&rsquo;s youngest citizens, five-year-old Jamie Brokow, the son of wealthy divorced parents, is abducted. His family pays the kidnappers their ransom, but the boy is never returned&mdash;and soon afterward, Fran Spicer, the local reporter covering the case, dies as the result of a mysterious car crash that the police are all too eager to attribute to alcohol.<BR /> <BR />Will Schafer edits a newspaper in a neighboring county, and he&rsquo;s less willing to dismiss the death of his friend Spicer so easily. Schafer won&rsquo;t find much local support for his investigation, however&mdash;strangers like him are not welcome in Long Creek. Still, he is determined to uncover the truth and see that justice is served, for Fran and for little Jamie. But the hunt could have powerful, unanticipated consequences for everyone involved: Schafer, the townspeople, the police, the devastated family . . . and an odd, disfigured hermit, drawn from his solitude in the forest by the frightened cries of a small child in the night.<BR /></div>

A Child Is Missing

<div><B>Small-town secrets are revealed in the wake of a Catholic priest&rsquo;s murder in upstate New York in this heart-stopping novel from an Edgar Award&ndash;winning author.</B><BR /><BR /> Two decades ago, the tiny New York hamlet of Bessemer was horrorstruck when a young Catholic priest was savagely bludgeoned to death in the middle of a blinding winter deluge. No one was ever charged with the crime, so when police beat reporter Ed Sperl listens to an old recording of journalists talking about the sensational case, he&rsquo;s stunned to notice something: the tiniest of connections that no one has made before. The new evidence compels him to investigate further than he thought possible&mdash;and further than some people would like.<BR /><BR /> The woman who made the recording, Bessemer reporter Marlee West, is still dealing with the shadow that has hung over her small town since that terrible night. And she fears that her colleague&rsquo;s curiosity has awakened a nightmare from the past. But the killer is already closer than she dares to imagine.<BR /><BR /> From an author known for both true crime and suspense, including the Edgar Award winner <I>Carolina Skeletons</I>, this is a chilling thriller that &ldquo;will surprise even the most astute mystery reader&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).<BR />  </div>

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