"One day you're that guy who's happy he managed to survive high school and get that almighty piece of paper, and you're thinking you might try to get a job at Redi-Mix concrete where your dad's worked since the beginning of time. And at least you've got a family you can stand even if they are all si[...]
With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.[...]
Growing up in hard-scrabble coal country with a drunk father and a runaway mother hasn't been easy for teen brothers Kyle and Klint. And when their dad smashes his truck and dies after a few too many beers, the boys are shocked that their often-absent mother plans to take them back to her new home [...]
Ivan är sex år när han på morgonen ser sin far gå till arbetet i kolgruvan i den lilla staden Coal Run. Plötsligt hörs en explosion som får hela huset att skaka, och det kommer att visa sig att nästan hälften av stadens manliga befolkning har omkommit i gruvan. Ivan blir faderlös och Coal[...]
I gruvsamhället Jolly Mount bor Shae- Lynn Penrose. Hon är en fyrtioårig före detta polis som klär sig i korta kjolar och cowboystövlar, och försöker försörja sig på att köra taxi. När en skum advokat samt en desperat hemmafru plötsligt dyker upp, båda på jakt efter Shannon, Shae-Lyn[...]
Tough, former cop Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into complete disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead, a desperate Connecticut h[...]
Dr. Sheridan Doyle-a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly forensic psychologist-is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney's office whenever a twisted killer's mind eludes other experts. But beneath his Armani pinstripes, he's still Danny Doyle, the awkward, terrified, bullied boy fr[...]
"A fearless exploration of the line between mental illness and true evil, a place many thriller writers visit but without the kind of fearless insights Tawni] O'Dell reveals in this powerful novel" ("The New York Times Book Review").
Dr. Sheridan Doyle--a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly fo[...]