02104cam a2200337Ii 4500 1356621427 OCoLC 20230816144709.0 221212s2023 nyu e 000 1 eng d 9781496727176 1496727177 (OCoLC)1356621427 Me eng Me 813/.6 23 Donlea, Charlie, author. 13457 Those empty eyes / Charlie Donlea. First Kensington hardcover edition. New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2023. 358 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. 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. Massacre survivors Fiction. 12330 Murder Investigation Fiction. 484 Missing persons Fiction. 5894 Private investigators Fiction. 10 Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft. 486 Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft. 485 ddc BOOK 28921 28921 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-08-16 27.00 7 1 DONL 64420 2025-10-07 2025-10-01 2023-08-16 BOOK 1