Lakeman’s second (The Shadow Catchers, 2006), though a bit overplotted, is blessed with feisty, fearless Special Agent Peg,...
A little girl thinks she’s escaped a sexual predator. But has she?
Peggy Weaver and her friend Sammie Stallworth, age ten, are a familiar sight as they bike in and around their small hometown of Avalon, Tenn. On an apparently normal day, however, insanity enters their lives. Someone captures Sammie, and Peggy is challenged in a way that will haunt her endlessly. “Trade,” the skinny man says, grinning evilly, while holding Sammie helpless. “You for her.” Instead, Peggy runs, outdistancing the danger but never the guilt. Twenty five years later, Peggy is the much respected FBI special agent Weaver, her career on the rise, whose past is about to throw a roadblock. When pornographic photos of a little girl heartlessly posed appear on the Internet, she recognizes Sammie, who’d been used and abused by her monstrous captor before being almost casually released. Later that night Sammie, now the equally respected professor Aldridge, calls. She too has seen the photos and is badly shaken by them. After all this time, must she reprise the half-forgotten horror that came so close to ruining her life? And, for that matter, what lurks in Avalon for Peg? Secrets and lies, yes, but perhaps long-sought redemption as well.
Lakeman’s second (The Shadow Catchers, 2006), though a bit overplotted, is blessed with feisty, fearless Special Agent Peg, who kick-starts the action whenever she has to.Pub Date: Nov. 29, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-312-34800-7
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Minotaur
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2007
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This ran in the S.E.P. and resulted in more demands for the story in book form than ever recorded. Well, here it is and it is a honey. Imagine ten people, not knowing each other, not knowing why they were invited on a certain island house-party, not knowing their hosts. Then imagine them dead, one by one, until none remained alive, nor any clue to the murderer. Grand suspense, a unique trick, expertly handled.
Pub Date: Feb. 21, 1939
ISBN: 0062073478
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1939
SEEN & HEARD
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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