Susan Kelly

The Boston stranglers

Liz Conners, a thirty-three-year-old former English professor turned freelance writer, and her lover, a Cambridge police officer, investigate the murder of her next-door neighbor

The Gemini Man

Kriminalroman

Und schlachtet das gemästete Kalb

An infamous murder spree. A monstrous hoax. “This book is, quite simply, remarkable journalism, and remarkable writing” (Robert B. Parker). “DeSalvo Is the Strangler!” declared the headlines after handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape-murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he had raped an additional two thousand women. His depraved story became the subject of a bestselling book and major Hollywood movie. But, it turns out, DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler. This detailed investigation exposes the true DeSalvo as a pathological liar, burglar, and rapist whose hunger for celebrity drove him to false confessions. The Boston Strangler reveals that the stranglings were actually committed by at least eight—possibly eleven—different killers. In all likelihood, DeSalvo was not among them. In an eye-opening update that explores stunning DNA findings, a shocking re-autopsy, and expert profiling evidence, journalist Susan Kelly uncovers the facts behind a savage, unsolved case that continues to haunt and fascinate. “Raises disturbing questions about one of our nation’s most notorious crime sprees.” —Gail Zimmerman, producer of 48 Hours “Taut with suspense . . . Crackles like a bestselling novel.” —Barry Reed, author of The Verdict

The Boston Stranglers

The last, best pandemic. The greatest game. They called it the rapture virus, and it killed almost everyone. In the aftermath, gaming entrepreneur Ben Gardiner's problems-his girl being in love with someone else, his double-crossing business partner, his prototype neural interface headset sending people into a life-threatening trance-vanish. Because now it looks like he and his lead programmer Vincent are the last two guys alive anywhere. Vincent isn't bothered. He lives in a world of his own anyway, with that troublesome headset. But Ben is bothered: he's lost his work, his friends, his family, maybe even his sanity. He drives the silent highways, searching for other survivors. And he finds them: a guy who's convinced Ben is a demon, a crazy woman who has cracked open the door to what might as well be Heaven, and the tiny group of survivors in Butte, Montana. He's got questions, though: why is he so much better at some things than he was before? What's up with the feral crazy people who almost-but didn't quite-die from the Rapture virus? What's really going on in Butte? Maybe the demons are real. The survivors are too busy surviving to notice that world has gone slightly strange. But not too busy to notice that there's something odd about Ben. Is he Human 2.0, or some creature from Hell? Or just a slightly shell-shocked survivor? In a world scourged by the Rapture virus, Ben knows one thing for sure: it's going to take every ounce of his courage, his puzzle-solving brain, and his will to live to survive the Endgame.

Endgame

A grieving mother finds solace from her son’s death in a relationship that quickly blurs the line between friendship and intimacy. By Accident portrays a year in the life of a woman after the accidental death of her teenage son. Laura Lucas is numbed by the loss, a loss that is paralleled in the spate of upscale construction—and attendant destruction—in her starter-home neighborhood. It’s about Laura's relationship with a young tree surgeon who slowly becomes a replacement for her son—but also an object of desire. The story reveals the delicate nexus where solace becomes sex; the role of men and women as unmarried friends; and examines grief in a marriage. It portrays the pain of change and the poignancy of acceptance through Laura's eyes, and occasionally, through the quirky outlook of her ten-year-old daughter. And before the story ends, another brutal, random accident will redefine Laura's life once again.

By Accident: A Novel

Packed with beautiful photographs, this stunning tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) celebrates the life, passions, frocks and rocks of one of the most striking and talented beauties of the silver screen.

Her Life in Style

Elizabeth Taylor

An “affecting novel” of a lifelong friendship that “hones in on both the big and small things that draw women together” (Orlando Sentinel). Frances Simpson and Libba Charles had nothing in common. Sweet and modest, the picture of a Southern lady, Frances possessed all the poise and grace that brash northerner Libba did not. But thrust together by chance in the fall of 1947 as freshman roommates, Frances and Libba formed an indelible bond of friendship that lasted for over forty-six years. Frances’s three grown daughters want as little to do with each other as they do with Libba, the woman who dominated their mother’s attention and affections for their entire lives. But when their mother, on her deathbed, makes them swear to “look after Libba,” they feel they have no choice—especially after Libba summons them to their mother’s summer cabin in North Carolina. Once they arrive in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Libba begins to reveal a tale of secrets and betrayals, promises and resentments the girls never knew. And, as long-hidden confidences are finally brought to light, Frances’s daughters will discover heartbreaking and powerful truths about themselves, their mother, and the nature of sisterhood, in this wise, emotional tale by the award-winning author of How Close We Come and The Last of Something.

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