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Cold Springs
Bantam, May 2003, 23.95, 340 pp. ISBN 0553802364 Chadwick intends to send his teenage daughter Katherine to Cold Spring, a boot camp style school in Texas because she's addicted to heroin and running with the wrong crowd. Before he can do that she overdoses while she is baby-sitting five-year-old Mallory Zedman. The incident traumatizes the little girl who saw her beloved baby-sitter die. Nine years later Mallory dates the boy whose brother...

Southtown
Bantam, May 2004, 24.00, 272 pp. ISBN: 0553801848 Will “Ghost” Stirman is the poster boy for a sociopath as he murders seemingly aimlessly. Thugs killed his wife and their infant son. Still he does not need much of a thread to connect an innocent to someone who hurt him or his family. Those involved in the murders of Will's family and anyone associated with his incarceration have reason to be afraid for Will bloodily breaks out of Floresville...

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