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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers,The Ford County Times, went bankrupt.
To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family.
Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi.
The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him.
Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison.But in Mississippi in 1970,"life" didn't necessarily mean"life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled.
He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.From the Hardcover edition.
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The masterful New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of Rules of Prey and Eyes of Prey. Lucas Davenport once matched wits with brutal serial killer Michael Bekker--and won. Now Bekker has escaped, and he's back in New York City, where his case and that of a group of renegade cops accused of three dozen murders merge in terrifying and unexpected ways. (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
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In the wake of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center, life in New York is far from back to normal. A serial killer who lost his family in the attacks stalks the town for revenge, a failing novelist gets a massive career boost when he is tapped as a murder suspect, an art dealer taps into the darkest part of her sexuality--these stories are all connected not only by the city in which they live, but by a thread that has been wound around them all since the towers collapsed....
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