Ruby Sisson Library

Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt — the woman who raised him — doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born. All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneberry estate where Tommie’s mother,...

When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.

"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron víctimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvó la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien seal como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crímenes celebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...

Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son.

"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...

When her defense attorney father's client kills himself in his cell, the man's own father blames the lawyer for his son's death and plans to seek revenge by targeting the client's father's children, including lesbian sleuth Jane Lawless.

Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing flashbacks...

"Winter came early the year Bernadette died. It seemed like there wasn't really even an autumn at all that year. And autumn was as pretty a season as there was up in that Duce country. The winters were miserable--cold and gray for the most part. And if there was one thing worse than winter there, it had to be the spring--when all the ice and snow melted, and that cold and gray and miserable little town was bogged down in a sea of brown mud. "God how...

Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs.