Wednesday, March 04, 2015

New This Week: Will To Live, A Goodwood and O'Malley Mystery by Lucinda D. Davis

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Will To Live by Lucinda D. Davis

Will To Live by Lucinda D. Davis

A Goodwood and O'Malley Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Lucinda D. Davis

Price: 99¢ (as of 03/04/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).

Will To Live by Lucinda D. Davis, Amazon Kindle format

The skeleton of a baby is found in the hay loft of a once thriving race horse stable just outside of the idyllic village of Coppin's Locks. But who were the parents? Why did the property owners leave the estate in a rush thirty years ago?

Former world class equestrian turned antique store owner Monica Goodwood, is dealing with a permanent leg injury, and a near fatal accident. She and her business partner Erin O'Malley set out to find out who the baby was and why it was left. As they poke and pry they find out that some staff at a deserted hospital were keeping unsavory secrets, an old man in the town with a mysterious past is leaving cryptic calls for help, and a murderer may have got away scott free!

Their search for the truth has the girls rummaging into people and places hiding secrets aplenty, nefarious characters with evil on their minds, and the sins of the past that are gone but not forgotten.

Will To Live by Lucinda D. Davis

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Murdering Moons, Three Manny Williams Thrillers by Rick Murcer, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murdering Moons by Rick Murcer

Murdering Moons by Rick Murcer

Three Manny Williams Thrillers

Publisher: Murcer Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 03/04/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

Murdering Moons by Rick Murcer, Amazon Kindle format

A boxed set of the first three thrillers in the Manny Williams series.

Caribbean Moon: Small-town detective/workaholic, Manny Williams, is thrilled with the prospect of finally taking the long-awaited vacation he had promised his wife, Louise. The couple's exotic getaway begins in sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico, by attending the wedding of a fellow Lansing police officer, followed with an incredible week-long Southern Caribbean cruise on the glamorous Ocean Duchess.

A bizarre, seemingly random murder in their posh San Juan Hotel, and the heinous cruise ship deaths of two of Lansing's law enforcement family, brings Manny, and his unique skills, out of cruise mode and head-long into the FBI-led investigation. Manny soon discovers that in this killer's twisted perception nothing is off limits, prompting a race against time that could cost him everything.

Deceitful Moon: Detective Manny Williams and his partner, Sophie Lee, are called to the scene of a disturbing and gruesome murder at Lansing's local adult playhouse, the White Kitty. The circumstances surrounding the ex-con's murder rocket deeper into the bizarre as the forensic evidence reveals more questions than answers.

As he begins his investigation, Manny is interrupted by a phone call that shakes his world. His nemesis, serial killer Dr. Fredrick Argyle, has killed again, and sent the evidence to prove it. Argyle's heinous actions force Manny and Sophie back to the Caribbean.

All the while, the body count rises in his city. Two serial killers. Each threatening to change his life forever. One succeeds.

Emerald Moon: When Carousel Cruise Line asks Detective Manny Williams to consult with them, and the FBI, regarding a series of hit-like murders of their security staff, he agrees. It has been eleven months since his his unbelievable loss and it's time to join the land of the living, if he can. But his nemesis, serial killer Dr. Fredrick Argyle, has other plans that eventually take Manny and his friends to Galway, Ireland, and a deadly chain of events that will send him to the brink … and beyond.

Murdering Moons by Rick Murcer

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Running from the Past, A Novel of Suspense by Alan Orloff, New This Week from Kindle Press

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Running from the Past by Alan Orloff

Running from the Past by Alan Orloff

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: $3.49 (as of 03/04/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

Running from the Past by Alan Orloff, Amazon Kindle format

After selling his company for millions, Colby Walker takes his family — and his son's friend Jess — on vacation, wanting nothing more than to unwind in the sun and surf. But he spots the alarming signs in short order: Jess's downcast eyes, a familiar passivity, and angry red welts marching across the boy's bare back. Walker understands what they mean because he'd been that boy, many years ago.

He'd suffered in silence, too.

Can Walker stand by and let the torment continue? Does he trust the authorities — the same ones who had failed him in his youth — to take care of Jess?

Hell no.

With Jess in tow, Walker packs up the minivan and takes his family on the lam, keeping one step ahead of Jess's cruel father and unhinged ex-con aunt. When the stakes escalate and his headstrong actions put people's lives in jeopardy, Walker must finally conquer his past before he can save those he loves.

He can run no longer.

Running from the Past by Alan Orloff

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Binds That Tie, A Novel of Suspense by Kate Moretti, Now Available at a Special Price

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Binds That Tie by Kate Moretti

Binds That Tie by Kate Moretti

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Red Adept Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 03/04/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

Binds That Tie by Kate Moretti, Amazon Kindle format

Love ties. Murder binds.

Maggie never felt as though she belonged until Chris Stevens showed her what true happiness meant. Ten years into their marriage, miscarriages and infidelities have scarred them both. Despite their perfect-couple image, Maggie can't look at Chris with anything but resentment. When a charismatic stranger offers the opportunity for a little harmless flirtation, she jumps into the game.

But charm soon turns to malice, and a deadly split-second decision forces Maggie and Chris onto a dangerous path fraught with secrets, lies, and guilt. With no one else to turn to — no one she dares trust — Maggie will ultimately learn just how binding marital ties can be.

Binds That Tie by Kate Moretti

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Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front, A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche by Val Andrews, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front by Val Andrews

Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front by Val Andrews

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front by Val Andrews, Amazon Kindle format

Sherlock Holmes is comfortably retired. He spends his days in the Sussex countryside, tending his bees. But there is a war on and Mycroft Holmes, a senior ranking official at the War Office, believes his brother's peaceful retirement must come to an end if the allied armies are to defeat the Kaiser.

Dr. Watson, at the behest of Mycroft, is charged with cajoling Holmes away from Suffolk comfort to serve his country. Their mission is simple enough: find out how the Germans are intercepting British communications. But before they get to the front line, the pair uncover an elaborate spy-ring at the British Army's Salisbury headquarters, involving Stonehenge, phosphorous rocks, marionettes and an alarmingly long-range German plane.

The hunt for the conspirators and the secrets they posses takes Holmes and Watson on a wild chase through the English countryside and eventually to the Western Front itself …

Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front by Val Andrews

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Two Trash 'n' Treasures Mysteries by Barbara Allan, Now Available at a Special Price

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Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan

Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan

A Brandy Borne, Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan, Amazon Kindle format

Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case …

Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the family's heirlooms. But when he is found run over in a country lane, Brandy becomes Murder Suspect Number One — with her mother coming in a very close second …

The list of other suspects is impressive — the victim's business seems to have been based on bilking seniors out of their possessions. And when the Borne "girls" uncover a few very unsavory Serenity secrets, they become targets for a murderer whose favorite hobby seems to be collecting victims.

Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan

Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan

Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan

A Brandy Borne, Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan, Amazon Kindle format

Halloween may be a time of treats, but for Brandy Borne, there's nothing trickier than keeping her batty mom out of mischief. Opening a booth at the Serenity antiques mall seems like a frightfully sensible solution — until a corpse turns up between the cornucopia and the candy corn. Local law scares up a suspect in the victim's dog, Brad Pit Bull.

But Brandy and Mother see through the killer's clever canine masquerade. Their mission: unmask a murderer — before the witching hour comes, and he mauls again.

Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan

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New This Week: A Touch of Tequila, A Nick Bracco / Jack Daniels Thriller by Gary Ponzo

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A Touch of Tequila by Gary Ponzo

A Touch of Tequila by Gary Ponzo

A Nick Bracco / Jack Daniels Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Gary Ponzo

Price: $3.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

A Touch of Tequila by Gary Ponzo, Amazon Kindle format

FBI Agent Nick Bracco arrives with a team of agents along with his mafia-connected cousin Tommy to help search the underground for the terrorist. When the teenager kills a Chicago cop, a vicious manhunt engulfs the city. Bracco reaches out to Lieutenant Jack Daniels for her help with local connection like longtime bookie, Tequila Abernathy, and she agrees to join the task force.

What Bracco doesn't realize, however, is that Jack knows of the kid and believes he is trying to escape from the terrorist organization that trained him for the job. A belief based solely on her intuition. The problem: There's powerful intelligence verifying the existence of a terrorist cell with an explosive device set to go off in downtown Chicago on Black Friday.

With just hours to go, Jack finds herself chasing the teenager alone and unarmed, ready to test her instincts. Bracco believes the teenager is there to detonate the bomb. Jack believes she can save the kid and find the bomb before the terrorists push the button.

Someone is wrong. Dead wrong. And the citizens of Chicago will have to pay the price.

A Touch of Tequila by Gary Ponzo

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A Catered Murder, A Mystery with Recipes by Isis Crawford, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford

A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford

A Mystery with Recipes (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford, Amazon Kindle format

Bernadette Simmons wasn't sure what to expect when she left L.A. — and her no-good, cheating boyfriend — to move back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering business. But in between cutting up canapés and dishing up desserts, the two find themselves in the midst of a mystery they can really sink their teeth into …

It's only been a few days since Bernie and Libby started working together at A Little Taste of Heaven, and already they've got their hands full — baking cookies and slicing rare beef tenderloin to serve at a high school reunion. The dinner has a "Dracula" theme and a very strange guest of honor: Laird Wrenn, a New York Times bestselling author of vampire novels. Libby and Bernie know this will be an evening unlike any other. And they're proven right when Laird pours a glass of water, takes a long sip — and drops stone-cold dead …

Now, with murder on the menu and Libby under suspicion, the sisters will have to put their heads together to figure out whodunit — in a mystery that promises to be deadly to the very last bite.

A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford

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A First Date with Death by Diana Orgain, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Georgia Thornton

A First Date with Death by Diana Orgain

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

A First Date with Death by Diana Orgain

A Georgia Thornton, Love or Money Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

A First Date with Death by Diana Orgain, Amazon Kindle format

What we know about the character: Georgia Thornton's best friend is the producer of the reality show Love or Money. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

When brokenhearted Georgia Thornton goes looking for romance on reality TV, she has nothing to lose — apart from a good man, a cash prize, and maybe her life …

What was Georgia thinking? Sure, some cad ditched her at the altar, but can she really find love on TV? Her best friend — and producer of the reality show Love or Money — thinks so. Ten men. Ten adventure-filled dates. What can go wrong? For starters, a faulty bungee cord that hurls Georgia's first date into a tragic spiral off the Golden Gate Bridge.

He's replaced by Paul Sanders, Georgia's former fiancé. But the cop isn't looking for a TV gig. Suspecting that the lover's leap was no accident, Paul's going undercover. When another bachelor gets a fatal kiss-off, the reality is that someone has killer new plans for the show — and for Georgia herself. Now, under the threat of permanent cancellation, Georgia fears that the only man on the set she can trust is the one man she just can't count on …

A First Date with Death by Diana Orgain

Scene of the Climb, A Meg Reed, Pacific Northwest Mystery by Kate Dyer-Seeley, Now Available at a Special Price

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Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley

Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley

A Meg Reed, Pacific Northwest Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley, Amazon Kindle format

Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It's a city with a small town feel, where she can crash on the couch of her best friend Jill, now that she's graduated from journalism school …

But a girl needs a job, so Meg bluffs her way into writing for Northwest Extreme magazine, passing herself off to editor-in-chief Greg Dixon as an outdoor adventure enthusiast. Never mind that Meg's idea of sport is climbing onto the couch without spilling her latte. So when she finds herself clawing to the top of Angel's Rest — a two-thousand-foot peak — to cover the latest challenge in a reality TV adventure show, she can't imagine feeling more terrified. Until she witnesses a body plummet off the side of the cliff. Now Meg has a murder to investigate. And if the climbing doesn't kill her, a murderer just might …

Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley

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The Hidden Man by Robin Blake, New in Bookstores during March 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2015 is …

The Hidden Man by Robin Blake

The Hidden Man by Robin Blake, a Titus Cragg and Luke Fidelis Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

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The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide? Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr Luke Fidelis disagrees.

To untangle the truth Cragg must dig out the secrets of Pimbo's personal life, learn the grim facts of the African slave trade, search for a missing Civil War treasure and deal with the machinations of his old enemy Ephraim Grimshaw, now the town's mayor. Cragg relies once again on the help and advice of his analytical friend Fidelis, his astute wife Elizabeth and the contents of a well-stocked library.

The Hidden Man by Robin Blake

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during March 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during March 2015 …

Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford

Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford, A Claire Weatherly, Amish Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford, Amazon Kindle format

In the Amish community of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, shop owner Claire Weatherly has come to appreciate a simpler, more peaceful way of life. But dark secrets are about to complicate things — and lead to murder …

After the Stoltzfus barn catches fire, Claire is awed by the response of the community. Hundreds of Amish men gather together to raise a new barn for the family in a matter of days. But in the midst of the work, a human skeleton is unearthed. Found with the remains is half of a friendship bracelet last seen on Sadie Lehman, an Amish teen long believed to have left her strict upbringing for the allure of English ways.

Now Detective Jakob Fisher — once a member of the Amish community himself — is determined to solve the young woman's murder. With Claire's help, he must dig into the past and bring to light long-buried secrets — secrets that someone is willing to kill to protect …

Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for March 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of March 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

The Janus Stone, A Ruth Galloway Mystery by Elly Griffiths, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

A Ruth Galloway Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths, Amazon Kindle format

It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway — minus its skull — Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?

Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would like to find out — and fast. When they realize the house was once a children's home, they track down the Catholic priest who served as its operator. Father Hennessey reports that two children did go missing from the home forty years before — a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the trail by frightening her, and her unborn child, half to death.

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

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New This Week: Concealed Suspicions, A Jade O'Reilly Mystery by Tamara Ward

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Concealed Suspicions by Tamara Ward

Concealed Suspicions by Tamara Ward

A Jade O'Reilly Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Tamara Ward

Price: $3.99 (as of 03/04/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

Concealed Suspicions by Tamara Ward, Amazon Kindle format

What begins as a white-collar crime investigation soon becomes deadly complicated with private investigator Jade O'Reilly on the scene …

Trouble arises when Benton Rowe, one of coastal North Carolina's most successful businessmen and eligible bachelors, finds a local store selling embezzled merchandise from one of his shipping companies. Benton bypasses the police to find the embezzler his own way. He hires Jade to work undercover from inside his company to solve the crime.

Jade sees the case as the ideal cover to dig into Benton's possible involvement in her father's death. As Jade is swept into Benton's world of penthouse apartments and fancy yachts, her boyfriend, Keith, isn't as thrilled with Jade's assignment. Nor are the thuggish members of Benton's security team, one of whom appears as suspicious of Jade as she is of him. Will Jade get to the bottom of the embezzlement at Benton's shipping industry and find dirt on Benton before she's permanently exported?

Concealed Suspicions by Tamara Ward

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An Excerpt from Broken Window, a Carol Rossi Mystery by Dorothy H. Hayes

Omnimystery News: An Excerpt courtesy of Dorothy H. Hayes
Broken Window
by Dorothy H. Hayes

We are delighted to welcome author Dorothy H. Hayes to Omnimystery News today.

Dorothy's second mystery to feature investigative reporter Carol Rossi is Broken Window (Mainly Murder Press; February 2015 trade paperback and ebook formats) and we are pleased to introduce you to it with an excerpt from the first chapter.

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Broken Window by Dorothy H. Hayes

THE SUBWAY WAS DANGEROUS. BUT the three girls wouldn't take no for an answer. Kelly Singleton was moving from her Connecticut home into her NYU dorm, and the subway was part of her new life, she told her concerned parents.
  Jamie Ryan and Christina Moore were her two best friends and would be visiting Kelly whenever they could. They insisted that they needed to learn how to navigate mass transportation.
  For all three of them, riding the subway was a rite of passage. That was their final plea.
  The old, rusted trains they were so anxious to ride broke down regularly, leaving passengers to wait, sometimes forty minutes and longer, in dangerous circumstances, their parents argued. The Daily News and The New York Times frequently reported gang violence on the trains, which in the last ten years had become the symbol of the city's rising crime rate.
  Gangs, boldly wearing identifying colors, often openly roamed the cars, intimidating passengers, bullying them to hand over their pocket money with no fear of recrimination, as if they owned the trains. Gang-tagged graffiti covered every inch of the filthy trains, including the windows.
  It was August 1984 and a crisis situation for New York City, with two thousand homicides expected yearly.
  However, the girls argued that millions rode the subway every day, and crimes usually occurred in the early morning hours. The girls would travel during morning rush hour, and to keep everybody from worrying, they would return home during rush hour in broad daylight.
  Jack Singleton, a New York City attorney and managing partner of the firm, didn't take well to losing the subway debate; he was only too familiar with the city's crime rate and the subway system. So the Singletons were the last of the parents to acquiesce and Jack only after some arm-twisting from his wife Nina. He wasn't too happy about his daughter attending NYU in the first place.
  He'd be relieved when the three girls got this trip out of their systems, saw the dangers of the trains and got back home.

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Dorothy H. Hayes
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Dorothy H. Hayes

Dorothy Hayes, a vegan for the last twenty years, has been a teacher, a journalist, a staff writer and a public relations director for a national animal protection organization. She and her husband live in Stamford, Connecticut.

For more information about the author, please visit her website at DorothyHayes.com and her author page on Goodreads, or find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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Broken Window by Dorothy H. Hayes

Broken Window
Dorothy H. Hayes
A Carol Rossi Mystery

The New York City subway was dangerous, the parents told the three Wilton High School graduates, but the girls weren't taking no for an answer. Kelly Singleton, soon to be an NYU freshman, and her two friends board the hazardous subway train. Several stops later, her two friends get off, but Kelly is nowhere to be found.

It is the torrid August of 1984, and crime is at an all-time high. Kelly's desperate parents turn to reporter Carol Rossi and police detective Jerry Stevenson to find their missing daughter.

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