Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.ĪN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK!Ī REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?įrom debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town.
Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” -Karin Slaughter “A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Leana Wen-emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist-has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible.
“Public health saved your life today-you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Healthįrom medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet. and peopled with rich and complex characters-from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue-here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands-and savors-the secret fears of every woman he kills.įilled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home.
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Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon.Ĭordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon." He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil-and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.
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