From Publishers WeeklyIn this affecting, if oddly flat, crime novel from Edgar-winner Cook (The Chatham School Affair), Eric Moore, a prosperous businessman, watches his safe, solid world disintegrate. When eight-year-old Amy Giordano, whom Eric's teenage son, Keith, was babysitting, disappears from her family's house, many believe Keith is an obvious suspect, and not even his parents are completely convinced that he wasn't somehow involved. As time passes without Amy being found, a corrosive suspicion seeps into every aspect of Eric's life. That suspicion is fed by Eric's shaky family history-a father whose failed plans led from moderate ...
A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl's killer The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel for the neighborhood where she died, and only the baby in her belly suggests how she might have gotten there. For Detective Frank Clemons, the scene is far too familiar. Too close to how it was when he found his own daughter, dead in the woods by her own hand, her youthful beauty cruelly ravaged by depression. Her suicide ended his marriage and sent him on a downward spiral that has nearly claimed his own life. To hang on to sanity, he must do everything he can to find justice for the dead.
This novelisation of the Hit American Sci-fi show will be avaiable at the same time as the UK broadcast.Due to be broadcast on BBC late January this 20 TV mini-series got rave reveiws and great ratings when broadcast on the Sci-fi channel in November in America.Created by Dreamworks (Steven Speilbergs company) the show centers around three American families who experiece an encounter with Aliens which in turn effects their lifes and friends around them over the next three decades.Well acted, great story lines and a spectacular special effects the TV show is bound to great viewing figures and the novelisaton captures all those elements.
