Kirjahaku

Kaylee's thesis project could get her killed. She's determined to move forward with it anyway, especially after finding and meeting Mama C and her band of homeless young people. As Kaylee gets deeper embroiled in the lives of this makeshift family, she realizes her thesis isn't what's important, but the real lives and broken families of those living on the streets. And she wants to help.When she first meets Blayne, the oldest member of Mama C's "family," she senses his strong dislike for her-it could be the way he derisively calls her "college girl" every chance he gets. But she also sees something else behind those ice-blue eyes-a fierce loyalty to and protectiveness of the elderly woman at the center of Kaylee's probe.As Kaylee discovers there's more to Blayne than dirty clothes, an unkempt beard, and a dark past, she finds herself unable to stay away, even when things become dangerous.Within the despair of homelessness and all that comes with it, Mama C sparks hope in countless others who thought they'd lost it. Can Kaylee help keep that spark going, or will she lose it all when she digs too deep into Mama C's past?

Dr. Dean Graves is notorious for being the Medical Examiner that gets assigned the wackiest accidental death cases in Georgia. But even as the detectives on those cases can't hold in their laughter, Dr Graves finds nothing funny about death and shows great respect for the dead at all times.When a new serial killer chooses Augusta as his playground, Dr. Graves and his assistant, Kat, get pulled into the investigation, throwing everything they have into finding the murderer before he strikes again. But Dr. Graves' determination and Kat's concern about the dangerous situations he's putting himself in threaten to ruin their friendship.Carter Ridge witnesses something awful when he's only eight-years-old, and his reaction is anything but normal. He hides his strange proclivities well, though-until he grows up and his need for revenge brings out the monster inside him.Carter chooses his victims from local bars. Each successive murder only serves to fuel the flames of his sadistic need to torture and kill the men that remind him of his abusive stepdad.Told in alternating chapters, see inside the heads of the killer and the straitlaced medical examiner desperate to catch him as they head toward a collision course that will make your heart race.

Anna Levitskaya is loyal to the party and so need not fear being taken away in a Black Mariah. Only dissidents and rebels are sent to the Gulags, not upright citizens like Anna. She keeps her head down and works hard at the factory, always careful what she says, if she says anything at all. Despite Anna's meticulous caution, everything goes wrong when her drunk fianc tells a joke mocking the Supreme Leader, and the NKVD officers hear of it. Before she knows it, Anna's fianc is dead, and she is being tortured for information. But that is only the beginning of Anna's suffering. Soon she'll find herself in one of the infamous Soviet Gulags-a hellish labor camp few ever return from, and those who do are never the same.Painstakingly researched, and carefully crafted, Comes the Black Mariah is a fictional novel about the real suffering of real people during the communist reigns of Lenin and Stalin.