Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Crimeline
Publication Date: 1992-07-01


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    The psychopath: Released from prison after losing his sight and incarcerated in a once-deserted home at the edge of the woods, he is under constant electronic surveillance, his every move monitored by closed-circuit cameras.  There is no way he could possibly escape....



The parole officer: One of the few people in town who knows what is locked inside the isolated house.  Quinn Gallagher thought she was hardened to human evil until she looked into the sightless eyes of a child killer and felt a law officer's outrage--and a parent's nameless dread....



The mother: Moved to Dove's Landing after the breakup of her first marriage hoping to start a new life with her daughter and her new husband--a  hope that is devastated when eleven-year-old Abby disappears one ordinary afternoon.



The nightmare: Now a killer may be on the lose on the streets of the small Vermont town...preying on the young and the innocent...and the horror is beginning all over again.  And the only clues to his identity lie in the dark confessions of a madman...and in The House On The Hill....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 1996-01-01


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    Interviewing a reformed child molester on her show, Dana Sanders becomes convinced that he is still a dangerous predator and fears that her own daughter, whom she has protected from the spotlight, could become his next victim. ...

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 1993-08-01


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    Fear made their hearts race, palms sweat, breaths come in panicked gasps.  Dr. Maggie Lyon's phobia patients sat in their therapy group, imprisoned by their own secret terrors, depending on her to set them free . . .  "The bridge was just a few steps away, and Macklin felt himself running toward it, no longer afraid--even when he climbed up on the railing, even when his scream echoed as he tumbled all the long way down.  The speedometer climbed toward 100, and the driver squealed in delight.  She never be teased about being "The Snail" agian as she raced down the highway toward the sharp curve and a fiery dive to death.  Dr. Maggie Lyons felt a chill when she heard about the suicide and the accident.  Two of her patients were dead, and the authorities believed she was to blame.  Unless someone had murdered them.  Detective Sam Bannister thought so, and now Maggie felt the growing threat of someone in the darkness . . . someone who knew her weakness . . . someone waiting to unleash the dear that kills....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Publication Date: 2001-03-19


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    Anna Jamieson was only three when her five-year-old sister, Julie, was murdered while her family slept through a tempestuous hurricane, one of many in a season that had been dubbed the Summer of Storms.

For thirty years, Anna has been haunted by mental pictures of that night-crude composites that remain grainy and indistinct. But now Anna has returned to New York City, the scene of this horrendous, unsolved crime, and events are about to unfold that will make her fuzzy memories all too frighteningly clear.

As her work as a photojournalist begins to expose the dark underside of the glittering city, Anna unwittingly crosses paths with a fiendishly clever killer. While her search for the truth races toward a chilling conclusion, she must distinguish between allies and enemies, and realize that, ultimately, there is no one to trust but herself....

    The still-unsolved murder of her 3-year-old sister Julie has haunted Anna Jameson's dreams since childhood. Tantalizing bits and pieces of that hurricane-tossed night tease her memory, but she's put it behind her and tried to move on with her life--unlike her parents, who left New York after the tragedy and still don't venture very far from their Charleston home. Now Anna has an opportunity to make her mark as a photographer in New York, and despite her mother's worry and warning, she takes it. Much of the first half of this somewhat slow-moving suspense story covers Anna's efforts to make a place for herself, professionally and personally. But then another perspective intrudes: that of a group of forensic psychologists, known collectively as the Arcanum, who study "cold" cases and try to close them, often years after the fact. The "Sleeping Beauty Murder," as the killing of little Julie Jameson is known, suddenly takes on new urgency when an anonymous someone with inside knowledge of those past events gets the experts involved again.

Despite the obvious parallels to the Jon Benet Ramsey case (including the suspicion that a family member killed the little girl), it's never made clear why a 30-year-old murder should still capture so much attention. The characterizations of the Arcanum members are so thin and one-dimensional that we don't care about them, except to note that author Judith Kelman seems to have a particular dislike of one of the experts she sketches, a media-hungry, spotlight-grabbing, and thoroughly unpleasant psychologist who's almost as awful as Anna's new boss, a tyrannical newspaper publisher. Kelman's written more than a dozen solid thrillers (Fly Away Home,, After the Fall, etc.), but this one seems slight and full of extraneous characters, intentionally misleading clues and McGuffins, and unfulfilled expectations. --Jane Adams...

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Jove
Publication Date: 2000-06-01


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    When the police come pounding at the Magills' door, arresting their straight-A son Danny for a shocking crime, it shatters the affluent family's perfect world....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Publication Date: 2007-05-01


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    He's a world-renowned, brilliant cardiac surgeon.But since Dr. Malik moved in upstairs with his family, Emma has started to wonder what kind of a man he really is. On quiet nights, home alone with her three-year-old, pregnant Emma can hear muffled thumps and screams from the apartment above and pleading words in a little girl's voice. If she reports Dr. Malik, she might put her own husband's career on the line. But the sounds from the apartment above keep haunting her, until she confides in a friend.

Soon, Malik becomes the target of an investigation. When he discovers the role Emma played in it, her life begins to unravel. And just as she is about to bring a new life into the world, she starts to fear for her own....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Jove
Publication Date: 2006-01-31


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    D.A. Investigator Sarah Spooner confronts her worst nightmare when a serial abductor known as the Velvet Viper targets her daughter....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Jove
Publication Date: 2006-09-26


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    Blame falls on P.J. Raftery, a therapist in the women's psych ward at Riker's Island, when an inmate is murdered. But when further developments in the murder come to light, so does P.J.'s fear that she's being used as a pawn in someone's increasingly deadly game....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Jove
Publication Date: 2005-12-27


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    Wake readers up with this thrilling new package.

Strange, terrible things happened at Thornwood when Emily was a child. But she thinks the horrors are over, as she takes her own children to her old haunts, where the sins of the past are somehow still lingering in the shadows....

Authors: Judith Kelman.
Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 1994-10-01


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    The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper  Westport a Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon  Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly  passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short  circuit of the mind, a rare seizure disorder, that had  unleashed Thea's murderous rage. Now, even after  the trial, the gruesome testimony of detectives  and forensic specialists, Thea can't remember the  terrifying moment when she struck Simon down . . .  only its hideous aftermath: the torrent of blood,  the broken corpse, the cold steel bite of the  handcuffs as the police led her away. After six  months in a posh Connecticut mental hospital, Thea is  back home with her daughter, eager to make a new  start. If only the community would let her forget .  . . if only the chief of police wasn't after her .  . . if only the senator's mother wasn't vowing  revenge. And if only Thea could be sure she's really  been cured. For soon the killing begins again.  And once more Thea can't remember . . . even when  she wakes up with her hands stained with blood....