Showing results for "Searching for Normal" in Suspense

He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him. What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will - one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.

"En realidad no sé cuál es el motivo de escribir este libro. Ni siquiera tengo la certeza de que llegue a manos de alguien. Lo único que tengo claro es que necesito contar esta historia. Me van a matar. Si os dijese que no tengo miedo os mentiría. Mi único consuelo es que sé que valdrá...

"Ho pensato ad Amina, la mia più cara amica. Durante tutti gli anni della nostra amicizia non ci era mai capitato di essere interessate allo stesso ragazzo. Però avevamo previsto che potesse succedere e ci eravamo promesse che nessuno ci avrebbe mai diviso. Ma stavolta era diverso, inaspettatamente strano. Era stata lei a vederlo per prima. Forse avrei dovuto farmi da parte, ma non ne ero capace. Non sapevo che le nostre vite sarebbero cambiate per sempre."

In the eighteen years since her father went to prison for killing her mother and brother, Della Stallings has battled a crippling phobia. Her fear only grows when her father’s released. She still believes he killed her family, but the police don’t have enough evidence to arrest him again. When new grisly murders occur - each bearing the telltale signs that seem to implicate her father - Della begins to wonder if the real murderer is still out there. Could her father have been framed?

Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest - and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away. After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father.