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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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Patterson`s perennial hero, homicide detective Alex Cross, returns for another adventure--and this time it`s his own family that`s in danger. The villains are a team of kidnappers with bizarre motives. Alex races against time as he tries to convince his hidebound colleagues on the D.C. police force that he has the key to solving the crimes.
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This mix of historical fiction, thriller, and puzzler was written more than 10 years before THE DA VINCI CODE, but should appeal to the same fans. Two novices in 18th-century Revolutionary France get their hands on a chess set once owned by Charlemagne and possessed of great mystic power. To prevent that power from falling into evil hands, the girls hide the pieces in separate locations around the world. The novices' story is told concurrently with the adventures of Catherine Cat Velis, an American computer expert seeking the chess set in 1972.
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They had been six teenage girls in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Full of mischief.
Acting wild.
Having good times.
And getting into witchcraft.
They called themselves the Six of Hearts.
Then one night things went too far.
One of them died.
The rest swore to never tell what really happened.Now, thirteen years later, someone has decided to kill the remaining Six of Hearts. The first to die is Angie, a successful New York City actress. And flower shop owner Laurel Damron, still living in Wheeling, may be next.
She has gotten a chilling message in the mail.
She knows a killer is watching her.
But who?
Only by searching the past can she uncover a haunting truth...only by looking into her self can she uncover a lost memory...and only by suspecting everyone she knows, does she have one slim chance of staying alive....
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Dimitri Karras remembers the summer of 1995 like no other. That was the summer his five-year-old son died after a bloodthirsty robber named Frank Farrow ran him over in his getaway car. Now, three years later, Karras has healed considerably thanks to therapy. But when private investigator Nick Stephanos informs Karras that the killer is back in town, Karras' anger and grief return and inspire an intense tour of revenge. Loosely based on the real-life Starbucks murders that rattled Washington, DC in 1996 and remained unsolved for three years.
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