Those empty eyes / Charlie Donlea.
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TextPublisher: New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2023Edition: First Kensington hardcover editionDescription: 358 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781496727176; 1496727177Subject(s): Massacre survivors -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Private investigators -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: In 2013, when Alexandra Quinlan, was 17, she hid as her parents and 13-year-old brother were murdered by an intruder in their McIntosh, Va., home. Alexandra earned the nickname Empty Eyes as she was led out of her family's house in shock; the name stuck after she was arrested for the murders. Her case never went to trial, and she later won millions in a defamation lawsuit. Hounded by true-crime fanatics and unscrupulous tabloids, she changed her name to Alex Armstrong. In 2023, Alex works in Washington, D.C., as a legal investigator for Garrett Lancaster, the lawyer who won her defamation lawsuit and always believed her to be innocent. Alex's latest case involves Matthew Claymore, a business major at McCormack University who is suspected in his girlfriend Laura McAllister's disappearance. A student journalist, Laura was working on a major story about rape on McCormack's campus. The engrossing plot leads Alex to the university's faculty and fraternities, to the über-rich and well connected, as well as links to her own family's murder.
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| DOLA Dead letters : | DONA The gilded hour | DONL Twenty years later / | DONL Those empty eyes / | DONL The girl who was taken / | DONL Guess again / | DONN A northern light |
In 2013, when Alexandra Quinlan, was 17, she hid as her parents and 13-year-old brother were murdered by an intruder in their McIntosh, Va., home. Alexandra earned the nickname Empty Eyes as she was led out of her family's house in shock; the name stuck after she was arrested for the murders. Her case never went to trial, and she later won millions in a defamation lawsuit. Hounded by true-crime fanatics and unscrupulous tabloids, she changed her name to Alex Armstrong. In 2023, Alex works in Washington, D.C., as a legal investigator for Garrett Lancaster, the lawyer who won her defamation lawsuit and always believed her to be innocent. Alex's latest case involves Matthew Claymore, a business major at McCormack University who is suspected in his girlfriend Laura McAllister's disappearance. A student journalist, Laura was working on a major story about rape on McCormack's campus. The engrossing plot leads Alex to the university's faculty and fraternities, to the über-rich and well connected, as well as links to her own family's murder.
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