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Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV report... (more)

Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband's death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer's innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer's alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer's next victim. (less)

"During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Fire Brigade, and this experience lies behind Caught, published in 1... (more)

"During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Fire Brigade, and this experience lies behind Caught, published in 1942, when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife remains at their country estate, far from the threatened city, while Roe serves under Pye, a professional fireman whose deranged sister once kidnapped Roe's young son, a bad memory that complicates the relationship between these two very different men. The book opens as the various members of the Fire Brigade are having practice runs and fighting boredom and falling into bed with each other in the months before the attack from the air. It ends with Roe, who has been injured in the bombing, back in the country, describing and trying to come to terms with the apocalyptic conflagration, in which he and his fellows were caught, putting into question the very notion of ordinary life. Caught was censored at the insistence of its publisher, Leonard Woolf, when it first came out. This is the first American edition of the book to appear as Green intended"-- (less)

"A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award... (more)

"A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award-winning team that brought you How They Croaked and How They Choked. Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some were merely out of line--but they all got Caught! as detailed in this fascinating and funny study of crime, culture, and forensic science. FEATURING HISTORY'S MOST WANTED: Joan of Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh, Caravaggio, Blackbeard, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Mata Hari, Typhoid Mary, Rasputin, Vincenzo Peruggia (Mona Lisa thief), Bernard Kuehn (Pearl Harbor spy), Anna Anderson (Anastasia impersonator), and Al Capone"-- (less)

Reporter Wendy is chasing down sexual predators and exposing them on national television. She's there when a child advoc... (more)

Reporter Wendy is chasing down sexual predators and exposing them on national television. She's there when a child advocate is arrested. He comes up missing, and the father of the victim claims to have killed him. She discovers that a group of local fathers are taking matters into their own hands, and the man she exposed may be innocent. (less)

Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocat... (more)

Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocate for abused children and tackles the case of a missing girl before a group of vigilante fathers makes Wendy fear that she accused an innocent man. (less)

Inspired by a true story, a desperate housewife kidnaps her husband's teenage mistress as a prank, but her plans soon sp... (more)

Inspired by a true story, a desperate housewife kidnaps her husband's teenage mistress as a prank, but her plans soon spiral out of control. (less)

While on an afternoon walk with their children, two small town reporters notice the military camped on a hilltop. Debati... (more)

While on an afternoon walk with their children, two small town reporters notice the military camped on a hilltop. Debating the possible significance of this activity, they answer their door when two unusual strangers come knocking. Soon what began as a formal interview descends into a nightmarish fight for survival. (less)