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John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news.Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy's final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.Thirty years after Gacy's execution, Conti looks back through the eyes of a seasoned professional on the legal and media circus that ensued-and her countless hours of detailed conversation with the killer clown. We hear for the first time about Gacy's gruesome "Body Book." Were there more victims? Conspirators involved in the murders? What secrets were buried with him?If one were to ask Conti, "How could you represent such a monster?" she would respond, "What you really want to know is, 'What was he like?'" This book answers that question.

HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED-BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she'd come home in a week or two.The year was 1965. That night was the last time her family ever saw her.Conrad Eugene Miller was well-known to local law enforcement. An older married man with a child, Miller's association with Patty was questionable at best. Yet he was the last person known to have seen her alive-and the suspect police continued to circle back toward.After nothing but false sightings and rumors, the case was moved to the backburner-where it stayed. As decades crept by, reality sunk in: Patty Desmond was never coming back. Then, a tiny crack unleashed a flood of information, and a mystery that had never quite been forgotten was solved.

A COLLECTION OF TALES NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!These gruesome stories have peppered the pages of newspapers and history books over the centuries. Some are well-known. Some aren't. They rest in that murky place between true crime and horror. All will make your blood run cold. Warning: Do not read right before bedtime!Inside THE BLOODIED AND THE BROKEN:¿ The Torturing to Death of Sylvia Likens¿ The Honeymoon Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck¿ Fumiko Kimura, A Mother Who Tried to Kill Herself and Did Kill Her Children¿ Torture-Murderer Elizabeth Brownrigg¿ The Torment and Tragedy of Jonathan James¿ The "Handcuff Man" and his Victims¿ The Baffling Brutality of the Briley Brothers: Bad Seeds or Fearsome Family Secrets?¿ How Violence Derailed the Life and Career of Barbara Payton¿ The "Children of God" and a "Little Prince" Named Davidito¿ The Brutal Burning of David Rothenberg

A village on the coast of Maine holds painful secrets- the kind only the miracle of new love can heal. Tormented by her fiancé's death, Tess Johansen escapes to the only place that can still comfort her-the Spinnaker Inn in coastal Maine. Here in this place by the sea she feels close enough to the man she lost to numb the pain, if not the guilt. For local craftsman, Evan Marston, the ramshackle inn serves only as a grim reminder of the accident that shattered his life and killed the woman he once loved. But while the Spinnaker's walls may hold guilt and grief and suspicion, they might also house a bright new spark. Drawn together by a love they never expected, Tess and Evan begin to unravel the mysteries of their pasts and question the miracle at work in their wounded hearts-until one fateful evening along a snow fence road ...

SHE KNEW HOW TO GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY DIDN¿T EVEN KNOW THEY WANTED ¿As one of Washington D.C.¿s most sought-after interior designers, the color has gone out of Stelläs life with the death of her beloved mentor and the infidelity of her longtime boyfriend. So she does what any 46-year-old woman on the run from her current life might döshe goes home.Back in the South, Stella dives headfirst into a pile of new business ventures and hits the road between New Orleans and Bixoli with her quirky friends. Then there¿s the thing about a maybe-murder and a voodoo nanny that¿s enough to spin her head. Too bad Stelläs slightly mysterious neighbor Sam Poole doesn¿t take a shine to her, not at first anyway. (She didn¿t exactly take a shine to him, either.) But sometimes, in the end, a second chance is in order¿and just sometimes, that second chance can bring a woman on the run what she didn¿t know she wanted.

Deep in the Alabama woods sits Primm House, straight out of fairy tales and the heart of a child. Now an adult, Franny Primm looks back, unweaving the threads of a certain summer in this southern coming-of-age tale.From the boy known as Zorro who roams the area on horseback, to the orphans in the woods and the Catholic hierarchy down the road, Franny recalls a series of characters and events that come together in a mystery-and the haunting answers to it.

Sometimes the happiest "happily ever after"is learning to love yourself.School teacher Monica Humphrey is dangerously close to becoming the proverbial cat lady. Abandoned by her father after her mother's death, she's an adult now-alone with her fears, hazy impressions of childhood, and an abundance of food to fill the void inside.Except for when it doesn't. An accident one lonely Friday night becomes the catalyst for emotional growth and physical transformation, and the doorway to love opens first in the form of a grocery store manager, and then in a little girl in need of a home.Relationships, like water, she soon finds, seek their own level-and Monica Humphrey is rising up.