JODI PICOULT

Die erfolgreiche Staatsanwältin Nina Frost hat über zweihundert Fälle von Kindesmißbrauch verhandelt. Obwohl sie glaubt, mit diesem vertrauten Thema sachlich umgehen zu können, gerät sie völlig aus der Fassung, als ihr eigener Sohn Nathaniel mißbraucht wird. Schließlich kommt es zum Prozeß, und da geschieht ein tödliches Unglück - und das bisher...

A heartbreaking book featuring a messy moral quandary. Can Charlotte O'Keefe declare that she would have aborted her disabled daughter if winning her Wrongful Birth suit means that she can guarantee her a lifetime of care? And what if the doctor that ...

Assistant, DA Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters, and in the course of her everyday work she endures the frustration of seeing too many criminals slip through the system and walk free. So when she realises that her son Nathaniel has been sexually abused - and is so traumatised that he has stopped speaking - she takes justice into her own hands.

Ross, a suicidal drifter and ghost hunter, is called upon to investigate whether an Indian burial ground is real by property developers who are desperate not to offend the local native Americans. Ross's work is complicated by the arrival of a skittish, mysterious woman called Lia.

As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, Cameron is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cameron immediately places him under arrest.