Violation - Hardcover

North, Darian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525937366 ISBN 13: 9780525937364

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1998

Synopsis

When her thirteen-year-old son--a product of a brutal rape--leaves home in search of his origins, Althea Auben is forced to confront the past she has tried to hide. By the author of Thief of Souls.

About this title

About the Author:

Darian North is the author of three previous bestselling suspense novels, Thief of Souls, Bone Deep, and Criminal Seduction. A native of California, North currently lives in New York.

From Publishers Weekly:

Raising her teenaged son in a remote Humboldt County, Calif., town, rape victim Althea Auben begins this involving novel of psychological suspense as a reclusive computer researcher hiding from her past. When her son runs away to Thea's Long Island hometown to try to discover his father's identity, Thea's landlord and neighbor, Jack Verrity, a sensitive ex-cop struggling with his own memories, joins her in going after the boy. Together they face the dark secrets in Thea's past and in the process uncover a deadly North Shore real estate scam. The reader easily stays a step ahead of the anxious mother and her detective friend, yet the narrative proves affecting as North (Thief of Souls) provides an empathetic portrait of a rape victim's continuing torment, especially when Thea discovers that her life is not the only one that was shattered, and that a tangled web of secrets still exists. Occasionally, the story defies reason. Why would the detective read a printout of Thea's erotic fantasies (shared in an online chat room) and not suspect trouble? Still, readers absorbed in Thea's transformation from terrified dropout to unswerving avenger won't care about a few lapses of logic. Rights: Aaron Priest Agency.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0525937366
• ISBN 13: 9780525937364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304