This book had such gruesome details of the murders of young girls that I would have stopped reading had I not wanted to know the ending. What's up with this being a major plot line over the last 10 years or so? Reading this book was like reading a Stephen King novel: a series of bad events happe...
This was one of the most disturbing books I've read in a long time. Not for the faint of heart, it grapples with issues of child physical and sexual abuse, and the reactions of adults to it, all told from the point of view of an adolescent boy in 1970 Texas.Why do children accept abuse and protec...
Rick didn’t mention my troubles with the city manager. On this don’t-ask-don’t-tell basis we met at his office and got down to business. ‘There’s got to be some way we can at least get the names,’ I said as we sat on opposite sides of his busy-looking mahogany desk. ‘Files are out, names are out,...
Night after night I would dream that I had woken up half a second too late, her words only a fading echo, but when I tried to ask her what she wanted I had no voice. Sometimes I had the dream several times in one night, and I racked my brain for days trying to figure out a way to rig Gram’s Kodak...