2010 The Last Child by John Hart
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust.
2009 Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder - four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives.
2008 Down River by John Hart
Adam Chase is passionate and misunderstood, a fighter. When narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, he disappears for five long years: not a clue, not a trace. Now, he's back and nobody knows why - not his family or the cops, not the women he left behind. But Adam has his reasons.
2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court.
2006 Citizen Vince by Jess Water
Darkly hilarious and unexpectedly profound, Citizen Vince is an irresistible tale about the price of freedom and the mystery of salvation, by an emerging writer of boundless talent.
A hideous crime has touched the Beckers in ways that none of them could have anticipated, setting three brothers on a dangerous collision course that will change their family -- and their world -- forever.
Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most
provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling
late night telephone call from the NYPD, who are holding his
fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what's going
on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and
unfamiliar streets...
A trip into the woods proves a learning experience for 13-year-old Harry in this latest coming-of-age mystery yarn. When Harry and his sister Thomasina (Tom) strike out into the woods, they confront not only the myth of the Goat Man, but also some myths about the nature of justice and race in their 1930s East Texas community.
A female reporter makes a personal pact with a serial killer in this award-winning thriller that reinvents the genre...
St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside, and Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, struggling and alone after his wife's recent death, heads the investigation into her murder.
Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy.