The Session
by Judith Kelman
from Berkley Hardcover
National bestselling author Judith Kelman, who has thrilled readers with all the suspense, wit, romance, and surprises that they love, returns with The Session, as a female therapist finds herself in an elaborate cat-and-mouse game with a clever, cold-blooded killer.
Prime Evil
by Judith Kelman
from Fanfare
Pregnant and unwed, Erica Phillips came to Bramble Farm to sort out her life and the papers of Theresa Bricklin. A stroke had left the legendary author a disfigured recluse totally dependent on her eccentric husband, who caters to her every need. He is determined to restore the crumbling estate to its former glory and his invalid wife to her former international brilliance.
But Bramble Farm hides a dark secret somewhere in its maze of odd rooms and shadowy passageways. Behind its facade of heartbreak and shattered dreams lurks a malevolent influence that has claimed more than one innocent life in the past. Now it is Erica Phillips and her unborn child who are the unwitting targets -- victims of an irresistible force drawing them ever closer to a shattering climax that has its roots buried in...
The House on the Hill
by Judith Kelman
from Crimeline
The psychopath: Released from prison after losing his sight and incarcerated in a once-deserted home at the edge of the woods, he is under constant electronic surveillance, his every move monitored by closed-circuit cameras.  There is no way he could possibly escape....
The parole officer: One of the few people in town who knows what is locked inside the isolated house.  Quinn Gallagher thought she was hardened to human evil until she looked into the sightless eyes of a child killer and felt a law officer's outrage--and a parent's nameless dread....
The mother: Moved to Dove's Landing after the breakup of her first marriage hoping to start a new life with her daughter and her new husband--a  hope that is devastated when eleven-year-old Abby disappears one ordinary afternoon.
The nightmare: Now a killer may be on the lose on the streets of the small Vermont town...preying on the young and the innocent...and the horror is beginning all over again.  And the only clues to his identity lie in the dark confessions of a madman...and in The House On The Hill.
Hush Little Darlings
by Judith Kelman
from Jove
D.A. Investigator Sarah Spooner confronts her worst nightmare when a serial abductor known as the Velvet Viper targets her daughter.
Missing in Manhattan: The Adams Round Table
Every Step You Take
by Judith Kelman
from Jove
Claire Barrow has found a fascinating focus for her latest novel--identity theft. But her invention turns all too real as Claire begins to recognize that someone is systematically stealing her life. Her nightmare deepens with the stunning news that the courts have released the vicious killer her late husband tried to put away for life. On a collision course with total ruin and with no one left to trust, Claire sees only one--very dangerous--way out.
Summer of Storms
by Judith Kelman
from Putnam Adult
The still-unsolved murder of her 3-year-old sister Julie has haunted Anna Jameson's dreams since childhood. Tantalizing bits and pieces of that hurricane-tossed night tease her memory, but she's put it behind her and tried to move on with her life--unlike her parents, who left New York after the tragedy and still don't venture very far from their Charleston home. Now Anna has an opportunity to make her mark as a photographer in New York, and despite her mother's worry and warning, she takes it. Much of the first half of this somewhat slow-moving suspense story covers Anna's efforts to make a place for herself, professionally and personally. But then another perspective intrudes: that of a group of forensic psychologists, known collectively as the Arcanum, who study "cold" cases and try to close them, often years after the fact. The "Sleeping Beauty Murder," as the killing of little Julie Jameson is known, suddenly takes on new urgency when an anonymous someone with inside knowledge of those past events gets the experts involved again.
Despite the obvious parallels to the Jon Benet Ramsey case (including the suspicion that a family member killed the little girl), it's never made clear why a 30-year-old murder should still capture so much attention. The characterizations of the Arcanum members are so thin and one-dimensional that we don't care about them, except to note that author Judith Kelman seems to have a particular dislike of one of the experts she sketches, a media-hungry, spotlight-grabbing, and thoroughly unpleasant psychologist who's almost as awful as Anna's new boss, a tyrannical newspaper publisher. Kelman's written more than a dozen solid thrillers (Fly Away Home,, After the Fall, etc.), but this one seems slight and full of extraneous characters, intentionally misleading clues and McGuffins, and unfulfilled expectations. --Jane Adams
Anna Jamieson was only three when her five-year-old sister, Julie, was murdered while her family slept through a tempestuous hurricane, one of many in a season that had been dubbed the Summer of Storms.
For thirty years, Anna has been haunted by mental pictures of that night-crude composites that remain grainy and indistinct. But now Anna has returned to New York City, the scene of this horrendous, unsolved crime, and events are about to unfold that will make her fuzzy memories all too frighteningly clear.
As her work as a photojournalist begins to expose the dark underside of the glittering city, Anna unwittingly crosses paths with a fiendishly clever killer. While her search for the truth races toward a chilling conclusion, she must distinguish between allies and enemies, and realize that, ultimately, there is no one to trust but herself.
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