A woman is faced with the past she's tried to put behind her only to find that what transpired in her childhood has never been further away than her own shadow.The year is 1941. Rooted in the lonely outreaches of the Allegheny Mountains lies the town of Hyde Bend. Its heart: a steel mill; its bon...
The tale of Detective Martin Emmett as he tracks a killer through the underground tunnels of Newark while the city above erupts in race riots.Lightning never strikes the same spot twice. Or so the saying goes. But Detective Martin Emmett has stumbled upon an exception to the rule. The year is 196...
Ionello and Vass had a ten-minute lead. The roadblocks might slow them some, though not much. Emmett pushed the speedometer to sixty on residential streets, passing and dodging other cars. He had committed the intersections with barricades to memory, circumnavigating all except two of them. At th...
“Please wake up,” he was saying softly. “Please.” “What is it?” I asked, reluctant to open my eyes. It was as though I’d fallen asleep only seconds ago. “Something’s going on.” Sallow, watery light was draining in through the window. It must have been a little past dawn. “Listen,” Martin whispere...