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c2012., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: SC MYS Fic MacB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret. Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front- Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card appears, each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his home-made cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards, they all think she's just run away from home, because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much not to be there when they finally catch the psycho who killed his little girl.
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2022., Scribner Call No: SC Fic Bar Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A darkly humorous modern classic about a doomed adolescent girl, featuring a new introduction by Maggie O'Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet. Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... So begins O Caledonia, with the body of sixteen-year-old Janet sprawled beneath the stained-glass window of her Scottish Highlands home. The only mourner is her pet bird, and there is no shortage of suspects in the murder of theunlovely and unloved Janet. Despite this opening scene, O Caledonia is not a whodunit but an account of our ill-fated young heroine's life, from birth to early death, about sibling bonds and betrayals, isolation and loneliness, the miseries of adolescence, and the saving grace of books. Author Elspeth Barker masterfully evokes the harsh climate of Scotland in this gothic tale that has been compared to the works of the Brontes, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edward Gorey. People, birds, and beasts move through the background in a tale that is as rich and atmospheric as it is witty and mordant. The family's motto-Moriens sed Invictus ("Dying but Unconquered")-is a well-suited epitaph for wild and courageous Janet, whose fierce determination to remain steadfastly herself makes her one of the most unforgettable protagonists in contemporary literature".
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By Mina, Denise2013., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: MYS Fic Min Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alex Morrow novels Volume: 4Summary Note: August 31, 1997. Rose Wilson is 14 but looks 16. Pimped out by her "boyfriend" and let down by a person she thought she loved, Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a sympathetic defence lawyer sets out to do what he can to save her. Now. Detective Inspector Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown, a vicious arms dealer. During the trial, while he is in police custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It is impossible that he could have been there, and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go...
