True Girl

Finding the Lost Girls follows criminalist Paul Holes — the investigator who helped unmask the Golden State Killer — as he comes out of from retirement to finish the work that haunted him. Years ago, Holes helped put photographer Joe Naso on death row for six murders. But Naso kept a list of ten, and the other cases went cold. Now, with Naso nearing ninety and his health failing, this is Holes's last chance to give the remaining victims their names back.

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age--twelve. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused murderers were all girls under the age of eighteen: Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence. Veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the ...

London, 1996. Alexandra Young, seventeen years old, disappears at a busy Tube station. Days later, the Underground becomes a citywide haunting—whispers in tunnels, cold spots on platforms, and a surge of deadly accidents that bring the network to a standstill. Detective Inspector Ian Megevand has seen the unnatural before. When Alexandra’s reappears, desperate for justice, he and his partner, Sergeant James Thatcher, are pulled into a case that defies logic—and a manhunt that refuses to stay among the living. As the suspects responsible stay one step ahead, thousands of restless ...

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ~Alexander Den Heijer After being sexually abused by her father and uncle from age 3 to 12. Physically, mentally, and emotionally abused by male figures from age 3 to 24. Raped three times in her life by strangers who weren’t her father and uncle. Kailee lived in secrecy in an antisocial life for over 20 years. She believed she would take her secrets to her grave but the secrets were haunting her daily. This led her down a self-sabotage path, until she finally broke her silence and told her ...

Freida McFadden meets Shari LaPena in a riveting, chilling novel of domestic suspense about a woman in a troubled marriage who joins an exclusive book club to reinvigorate her sense, but finds there's something sinister between the pages... Amelia knows her marriage isn’t normal. It’s always...

In a world where every crime tells a story, some voices remain eerily silent. In The Forgotten Girls, Dr. Alyce Clark, a passionate investigator and scholar, invites you to uncover the chilling realities behind the cold cases of women whose lives were cut short, yet whose stories have been overshadowed by time and society. This gripping exploration delves into the lives of these women, revealing their dreams, struggles, and the profound impact of their untimely deaths on their families and communities. With meticulous research and heartfelt storytelling, Dr.

"She could not hear the world. She learned to read it." For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz, and The Nightingale. Berlin, October 1942. Seventeen-year-old Leah Adler has been deaf since the day she was born. In a quiet flat above her father's tailor shop, she has learned to listen with her hands, her cheekbones, the bones behind her eyes — to read a world that has never spoken to her. Then a brick comes through the front window. Then comes the yellow star. Then comes the knock at the door at half past five in the morning. When the cattle car opens at the ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral “Black Swan Murder,” describes coming of age amid grief, violence, and a true-crime spectacle, in a poignant memoir "relatable to anyone who’s experienced grief or witnessed evil up close. Eva tells...

Give Her the Priceless Gift of Courage, Confidence and the Belief She Can Do Anything Previously published as You Can Be Brave by Susannah Hope. Being ten or eleven can be hard. She’s no longer a little girl, but she’s not quite a teenager either. Confidence can wobble. Comparisons creep in. Peer pressure builds. Some days she feels brave and full of ideas. Other days, she doubts herself. You can’t be there with her every step of the way. But you can give her something powerful: real stories about women who faced challenges, bullying, had moments of doubt, kept going, and discovered ...

"Fans of Debbie Macomber, The Chesapeake Bay series and Elin Hilderbrand will love this series..." Kindle Reader "A story about friendship, sisterhood, mother-daughter relationships, finding your inner strength in the face of adversity, starting over, and the pursuit of true love..." Andi's Books "Best book of the year. I know it's only March, but it is....Ms. Keaton's storytelling is brilliant..." Harlie's Books She's 54, broken-hearted, and starting over.... High-powered New York attorney Ava Flynn finds herself without a job or a future. Unemployable at her age, and broken-hearted by a ...

Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, shed been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.

A minister's household. A frightened community. A legal system that convinced itself the impossible was happening — and then couldn't stop. This is the story of the Salem witch trials told through the people who lived it: Tituba, the enslaved woman whose confession set the machinery in motion; Bridget Bishop, the first to hang; Rebecca Nurse, the pious elder whose jury acquitted her — until they didn't; George Burroughs, the minister recalled from exile to be named a satanic ringleader; Giles Corey, pressed to death under stones rather than enter a plea that would cost his family ...

In this twisty psychological thriller, a young woman still haunted by her brother’s murder is forced to question everything she thought she knew when the killer’s brother claims the wrong man went to prison. Jessica will never forgive herself. Five years ago, her brother and best friend were...

Mia ist gerade von ihrer Austauschreise nach Europa zurück, als ihre Mitschülerin Avery unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwindet. Ist sie weggelaufen? Gab es einen Unfall? Oder war es ein Verbrechen? Fragen, die über Social Media heiß diskutiert werden. Denn tatsächlich ist dieser Fall nur der Auftakt einer ganzen Reihe von Ereignissen, die Mias Heimatstadt erschüttern.

How can Danielle understand "normal" if she has never experienced it? She was moved from town to town, kept hidden from society, and always felt like an outsider. Her innocence was brutally taken by someone she least expected. She harbored a dark secret that could devastate her family—a secret she fiercely protected. Would the burden of shame be too much to bear if the truth were revealed? As secrets are uncovered, Danielle plunges into a tumultuous descent with nothing to stop her fall.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell, two women's lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried in this "deliciously dark, devilishly addictive" (Alice Feeney, bestselling author of...

Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime. Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means...

You bring a great light into this world that no one else can bring, and only you know how to shine bright! Some of the girls are confident, and some of the girls are shy. We meet girls who have friends and others who feel all alone. There are girls who can’t help being happy and others who can’t stop feeling sad. We all have to live in the real world. Sometimes that is easy, and sometimes it is hard. But don’t be afraid. Being a Christian means that you are never alone because Jesus is always with you. When you trust in him, he will make you strong. When you lean on him, you will ...

Inspired by true events, a breathtaking WWII historical novel about the brave American women who trained the British Royal Air Force, by New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath. 1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in...

True: Delly Pattison likes surpresents (presents that are a surprise). The day the Boyds come to town, Delly's sure a special surpresent is on its way. But lately, everything that she thinks will be good and fun turns into trouble. She's never needed a surpresent more than now. True: Brud Kinney...