Bøger af Merry Jones

Nora Warren hides her dark side well because she's had years of practice. The wife of a lawyer and mother of two girls, she slides under everyone's radar, never revealing what she really is-a murderer. At least, she feels like one. Nora is plagued by secrets surrounding her older brother's suicide decades earlier. Uet she lives as though he never existed. Now, she suspects that her husband is having an affair with her friend, the wife of a leading US Senate candidate. When her firend's body is discovered-another apparent suicide-Nora is left with haunting secrets and choices that dredge up the grim nature, the side of herself that no one ever sees. Will she act upon her impulses? Mustn't she? How far will Nora go to protect the life she has so painstakingly built for herself?

A taut suspense novel, The Deadly Neighbors is the third in the series featuring art therapist Zoe Hayes. Neighbors are shocked when a woman's body is discovered in the kitchen of Zoe's estranged father, Walter. In fact, they suspect Walter of killing her. But as Zoe investigates, it seem that the neighbors are up to some pretty shocking shenanigans themselves. Zoe tries to prove her father's innocence, but along the way, she encounters a cruel ring of organized criminals who specialize in dark and deadly forms of entertainment. Trying to escape their grasp--with her daughter, Molly, in tow--Zoe must solve a series of grisly murders. In the process, she stumbles into secrets that force her to reconnect with a lost and very frightening part of her own past.

The River Killings is the second fast-past, gripping tale of suspense in the Zoe Hayes mystery series. Zoe, a divorced art therapist with a six-year-old adopted daughter, returns with another page-turner set in Philadelphia, this time along historic Boathouse Row. On summer vacation from her job, Zoe takes sculling lessons with pal Susan Cummings. One evening, while daughter Molly and Susan's children wait in the boathouse, Zoe and Susan row off onto the Schuylkill to practice for an upcoming regatta. When Susan's oar catches on some flotsam (which turns out to be a woman's dress) the boat flips, and the two find themselves in deep water with not just one but an entire throng of dead bodies. Someone along Boathouse row is a murderer, but who? When Zoe and boyfriend Detective Nick Stiles argue, he heads out to the river for a "cool off" night time row. When he doesn't come back, Zoe and Molly go looking for him. There, in the darkness, Zoe discovers a sinister plot that she and Molly might not be able to escape.

Birthmothers presents intimate and stirring accounts of more than seventy women who surrendered babies for adoption. It follows their lives long-term, from discovery of their pregnancies through the present, and identifies the Birthmother Syndromea pattern of behavior and emotions resulting from surrender. With heartwarming candor, Birthmothers reveals the stories of the invisible side of the adoption triangle, and touches everyone involved in adoption, as well as anyone interested in motherhood, family, and women in our society.

Iraq War veteran Harper Jennings is studying for a degree in Archeology. While cataloguing Pre-Columbian artifacts, she finds a fellow student murdered. Harper's PTSD flares up, and life goes haywire. She hears noises in the walls when she examines the relics-even thinks she sees hunted by a shape-shifter (half human, half jaguar). Are the artifacts cursed? Is her life in danger? The closer Harper gets to the relics, the more danger she faces. The relics can't really be cursed. Can they?