Carla Norton

Christine McGuire

Called the "sex slave", and "the girl in the box" case, this is the story behind Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment by Cameron Hooker as told by the district attorney who tried the case. Too bizarre to be anythin g but true, it is a tale of riveting intensity and gripping courtroom drama. 8 page photo insert. Soon to be a TV miniseries.

Perfect Victim

Struggling to live a normal life a decade after escaping her kidnappers, Reeve LeClaire agrees to help her therapist throughout the rehabilitation of another rescued abductee only to discover that the girl is still being pursued by a ruthless predator.

The Edge of Normal

When a psychopath who held her prisoner for four years escapes from a mental facility and begins a murderous rampage, college student Reeve realizes that she is the only person who knows the killer well enough to stop him. By the best-selling author ofThe Edge of Normal.

A Novel

What Doesn't Kill Her

Reeve wurde entführt und misshandelt, genau wie Tilly, der sie helfen soll, das Trauma zu verarbeiten. Zwei weitere Mädchen werden vermisst. Nur Tilly kennt Details, die sie retten könnten. Warum vertraut sie niemandem? Reeve recherchiert auf eigene Faust und bringt sich damit in Lebensgefahr.

Und nachts die Angst

Und morgen dein Tod

Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured, lively twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and chilling crime. Cameron and Janice Hooker had literally made her their slave - and forced her to endure all of Cameron's twisted sexual perversions. During these seven years the Hookers had two children, entertained their friends at home and held down jobs - while Colleen was held captive in a coffin-like box under their bed. This is also the story of Christine McGuire, a young, inexperienced deputy district attorney who prosecuted Cameron Hooker for kidnapping and successfully explained why Colleen - who had numerous chances to escape - stayed captive for so many years.

Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash that freed Reeve seven years ago. Post-concussive syndrome, they call it. For all that Flint seems like a model patient, he has long been planning his next move. When the moment arrives, he gets clean away from the hospital before the alarm even sounds. And Reeve is shocked out of her new life by her worst nightmare: Her kidnapper has escaped. Less than 24 hours later, Flint kills someone from his past--and Reeve's blocked memories jolt back into consciousness. As much as she would like to forget him, she knows this criminal better than anyone else. When Flint evades capture, baffling authorities and leaving a bloody trail from the psychiatric lock-up to the forests of Washington state, Reeve suddenly realizes that she is the only one who can stop him. Reeve is an irresistibly brave and believable heroine in Carla Norton's heart-stopping new thriller, What Doesn't Kill Her, about a young woman who learns to fight back.

A true story of riveting psychological intensity by the assistant D.A. who prosecuted the captor of "the girl in the box". Called the "sex slave," and "the girl in the box" case, this is the story behind Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment by Cameron Hooker as told by the district attorney who tried the case. Too bizarre to be anything but true, it is a tale of riveting intensity and gripping courtroom drama.

Die unbeschwerte Kindheit der 12-Jährigen Reeve LeClaire fand ein jähes Ende an dem Tag, an dem sie ein perfider Triebtäter entführte und misshandelte. Erst nach Jahren der Gefangenschaft konnte Reeve fliehen und ihr Peiniger gefasst werden. Doch Jahre nach ihrer Flucht werden in Kalifornien erneut drei Mädchen entführt, von denen schließlich eins entkommen kann: Tilly. Sie ist das jüngste Opfer, schwer traumatisiert und verweigert jegliche Aussage. Schließlich bitten die Eltern des Mädchens Reeve um Hilfe. Immer tiefer gerät Reeve in die aktuellen Ermittlungen und ins Visier des brutalen Killers, der sie keine Sekunde unbeobachtet lässt ...

Thriller

«Questi personaggi rimarranno per sempre nella mia immaginazione.» JEFFERY DEAVER So chi sei. So cos'hai sofferto. Perché io sono come te. Ma quello che so non basterà a salvarti. Reeve LeClaire sembra identica a tutte le sue coetanee: ha ventidue anni, è molto carina ed è finalmente riuscita ad andare a vivere da sola in un appartamento tutto suo a San Francisco. Ha un lavoro ed è solo un po’ timida con le persone nuove. Ma la realtà è molto diversa. Sono passati dieci anni dal suo rapimento, meno di sei dalla sua liberazione fortuita. Reeve è stata tenuta prigioniera da un maniaco per tutta l’adolescenza. Se riesce, almeno in apparenza, a sembrare una ragazza qualunque, è merito della sua tenacia e dell’aiuto del dottor Ezra Lerner, lo psichiatra specializzato nel trattamento delle sindromi da cattività prolungata. Reeve vorrebbe lasciarsi tutto alle spalle, dimenticare, ma sa che non è così che funziona. Perché niente è così facile. E quando il dottor Lerner le chiede di aiutarlo con un suo nuovo caso, Reeve sa di dover accettare. La quattordicenne Tilly è appena sfuggita a un maniaco dopo mesi di prigionia, e si rifiuta di parlare con chiunque. Solo Reeve, con le sue cicatrici e la consapevolezza di ciò che Tilly ha sofferto, riuscirà a infrangere quella barriera di silenzio ostinato, scoprendo però che dietro non c’è la voglia di guarire, ma la paura. Perché la vera minaccia è ancora là fuori. E perché Tilly non è l’unica.

La sopravvissuta

Reveals the truth behind the case of Dorothea Puente, the genial Sacramento landlady who was actually a psychopathic killer who buried the corpses of her indigent and homeless victims in her garden

The True Story of a Diabolical Female Serial Killer

Disturbed Ground

In this sequel to Norton's debut novel, The Edge of Normal, Reeve is moving closer to the normal life she so craves, no longer defined by the kidnapping that changed her life. But when her abductor, Daryl Wayne Flint, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, Reeve's new-found strength and tranquility are about to be tested in ways neither she nor Flint could have imagined.

Hunted

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Perfect Victim returns with another true-crime thriller. Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house on F street in Sacramento, taking in the city's homeless. But when corpses were dug up in her garden, it became clear the "kind-hearted" landlady was, in fact, a psychotic killer.

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